Congress has directed the Pentagon to document troops' blast exposures in combat and training and include the information in their medical histories to help determine whether they are eligible for treatment and service-connected benefits. According to language in the $738 billion defense bill signed into law recently by President Donald Trump, the histories will also "inform future blast exposure risk mitigation efforts of the Department of Defense." Numerous reports and studies by the DoD, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others have pointed to links between blast exposure and traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress. Read more at Military.com.
Pentagon Ordered to Add Blast Exposure to Troops' Medical Histories
