Photo: Brig. Gen. Rhonda CornumComprehensive Soldier Fitness Program Aims To Equip Troops Mentally -- L.A. Times
Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum of Gulf War fame has been deployed to lead the military's new program to prepare soldiers for the psychic trauma of war and its aftermath.
Reporting from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.—Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum found out what combat stress was in the back of a pickup during the first Gulf War in 1991 when one of her Iraqi captors unzipped her flight suit and, as she lay there with two broken arms and an injured eye, sexually assaulted her.
The reed-thin Army physician, whose Black Hawk helicopter had been shot down, became a symbol of everything America was worried about in sending women to war. Her successful return home — sane and not that much the worse for her ordeal — became a powerful argument for the irrelevance of gender in conditions of indiscriminate violence.
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My Comment: If there is anyone who knows what stresses and horrors a soldier may experience in war time .... she is the one.
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