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NEWS Navy Launches TBI Study For Fighter Pilots
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Since he doesn’t want to join the Navy he is not required to use the search function like the new kids.
Sully18
Sully
I am admittedly confused. Then again I am old and possibly brain damaged, but certainly not proud or happy about that issue. I am extremely proud, like Im guessing all of the military pilots reading this are, of my service. I am the "Sully" in the NYT article dated Fri Feb 7 "House pressures Navy for Data on Brain Risks" I am a 68 year old ex pilot looking to find other pilots who have suffered from what may have been a neurological , causation, and possibly not a psychiatric one. I was asked to tell my story to assist Rep. James Comer chairman of the House Oversight committee with additional anecdotal evidence of disabling depression, and suicidal ideation. The committee has been trying to get the data (whether definitive or not) collected by the Pentagon study, Operation Odin's eye, released to them.
Apparently, and quite understandably, very few pilots have come forward publicly. Clearly, the pilots that have committed suicide, cannot. To your point Brett, the journalist explained I was the oldest pilot he knew, that was afflicted with the phenomenon, hoping to get as far back as possible to the Vietnam era. I said I would willing to tell my story in the interest of helping others know they were not alone, as well as attempting to get the data from DOD. That data, if significant, should be made available to pilots currently bagging traps and cats, to be able to make an informed decision about this crippling and often fatal problem if it exists.
The anecdotal information is so compelling that Congress now wants to know what is, or is not, happening. Why, for example, does the anecdotal information gathered mention only Navy Pilots? I don't have any answers, only questions about this apparently existential threat to Navy Fighter Pilots? I am looking to help, as well as ask for support. There is nothing contentious about my attitude. I sympathize with anyone out there with these symptoms, because of their chronically painful effects. I've studied this predicament for over 20 years now, and spoken to scores of doctors and healers, to try and find a viable way to mitigate my pain, and hopefully others. My understanding is, that this is what this website is all about. Clearly Im brand new to this forum, but must be violating a protocol of some sort. My apologies for that.
respectfully, Sully
Apparently, and quite understandably, very few pilots have come forward publicly. Clearly, the pilots that have committed suicide, cannot. To your point Brett, the journalist explained I was the oldest pilot he knew, that was afflicted with the phenomenon, hoping to get as far back as possible to the Vietnam era. I said I would willing to tell my story in the interest of helping others know they were not alone, as well as attempting to get the data from DOD. That data, if significant, should be made available to pilots currently bagging traps and cats, to be able to make an informed decision about this crippling and often fatal problem if it exists.
The anecdotal information is so compelling that Congress now wants to know what is, or is not, happening. Why, for example, does the anecdotal information gathered mention only Navy Pilots? I don't have any answers, only questions about this apparently existential threat to Navy Fighter Pilots? I am looking to help, as well as ask for support. There is nothing contentious about my attitude. I sympathize with anyone out there with these symptoms, because of their chronically painful effects. I've studied this predicament for over 20 years now, and spoken to scores of doctors and healers, to try and find a viable way to mitigate my pain, and hopefully others. My understanding is, that this is what this website is all about. Clearly Im brand new to this forum, but must be violating a protocol of some sort. My apologies for that.
respectfully, Sully
Good post and, probably, you should have led with this information. I hope your search goes well.
For those wondering, here’s the story to which @Sully18 is referring. (paywall removed).
Amen
My neck couldn't agree with you more.