A bill to allow recruits with previous mental health treatment is on the way

[rebewranger]

A bill to allow recruits with previous mental health treatment is on the way
By Meghann Myers
 Apr 8, 12:49 PM
 
If it becomes law, the bill would allow recruits who've previously sought mental health support. (Alun Thomas/Army)
In the vast majority of cases, young Americans hoping to join the military are barred from signing up if they’ve previously been treated for anxiety, depression or other mental health struggles. But there is some interest in changing that.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is working on a bill that would remove some of those barriers, he said Wednesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.


“We’re telling young Americans, right now, if your dream is to be an Air Force pilot and you have depression as a 16-year-old girl, you either need to not go get help, or if you did go get help and you’re prescribed drugs and then you apply to be an Air Force pilot, you’ve got to lie,” he said.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/04/08/a-bill-to-allow-recruits-with-previous-mental-health-treatment-is-on-the-way/

[rebewranger]

The next thing you know they'll be allowing officers with AIDS, junkies, gays, trannies, and black racists to join.  Say what?  They already are?

[EdinVA]

So if they cannot handle being a spoiled basement dweller, how are they going to handle the stresses of war.... 

[Smokin Joe]

So if they cannot handle being a spoiled basement dweller, how are they going to handle the stresses of war.... 

I reckon they'll get to act out their fantasies...


...purt'near all of them at the rate things are going.