He also bristled at his assignment to a Warrior Transition Unit, where he felt he was surrounded by unmotivated and overmedicated soldiers.
Sara Meisinger, the chief of occupational therapy at the warrior transition unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said a service dog should be used only in the final stage of treatment, after a soldier has accomplished as much as possible with traditional therapy.
Another film is about a career infantry soldier with 19 years of service, had two girls, got shot, had P.T.S.D. and was diagnosed with leukemia when he got to the Warrior Transition Unit.
At Fort Hood, Tex., a study conducted just before the shooting rampage there last November — which found that many soldiers in the Warrior Transition Unit thought their treatment relied too heavily on medication — also concluded that a majority of the cadre believed that soldiers were faking post-traumatic stress or exaggerating their symptoms.
As he recovered in the Warrior Transition Unit at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, Sergeant Wood tried to decide whether to stay in the military by switching to less taxing jobs, an idea he hated, or to leave, collect his benefits and find a civilian job.
He is grateful for the warrior transition unit.
That's where he joined his first outpatient warrior transition unit, where he was presented with the Bronze Star, where he began his long journey back to health.
The warrior transition unit, in Oklahoma and later in Washington state, was a refuge from the world at large, and for that, Jimenez is grateful.
Less clear at that time was what Jimenez's life would be like outside the protective embrace of the warrior transition unit.
Retired Sergeant First-Class Justin Widhalm, a 34 year-old veteran of the war in Iraq who was treated for PTSD at the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Carson, Colorado, told me that "talking about the stuff that happened to you to a caring listener is often the only thing that helps you work through it".
