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Caring for TBI patients.(traumatic brain injury)

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THEY walk, talk and stand tall in uniform like other Soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., who wear the immediately recognizable combat patches so commonly seen at the post that's home to XVIIIth Airborne Corps and the 82nd Airborne Division, among other elite units. Outwardly, people wouldn't notice their injuries.

But for most Soldiers being treated for mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury, or mTBI, short-term memory failure means forgetting something someone said 15 minutes earlier or getting lost on the way to a nearby store are common signs of mTBI.

"We screen every single soldier who comes back from theater," said Lt. Col. Benjamin E. ...

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