Knox touts improvements for wounded troops

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Knox touts improvements for wounded troops
By Bruce Schreiner - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 22, 2008 5:48:31 EST

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Staff Sgt. Gerald Gonzalez has seen plenty of changes in a special unit for wounded soldiers since arriving at Fort Knox last summer with wounds from a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Barracks at the Army post in central Kentucky are being renovated for soldiers placed in the “warrior transition unit.” Staffing has been beefed up to help soldiers heal. An assistance center geared toward the wounded troops and their families has opened.

“It’s a lot better now,” said Gonzalez, who suffers from a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder since being wounded last May while helping escort a military convoy.

“Overall, the way that we receive care has gotten better.”

Still, he said, Army efforts to specially tend to the wounded soldiers remain “a work in progress.”


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