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One factor that I noted for all high-stress work… first responders, ATC, GIs, etc… is to have mental health support and counseling, available on-site.
Traditionally, working chaplains/assistants… working in the trenches with the troops… have helped fellow GIs/fire/rescue/law/etc personnel maintain a semblance of sanity together in the worst of times. Telling people to ‘suck-it-up’ is no help and is often abusively-destructive.
Being able to safely ‘dump’ to a Chaplain… and receive support [family/financial/etc] from Chaplains… is a highly underrated essential service to people in life and death work.
I have seen strong men and women ‘break-down’ from all the work stress in the arms of a priest/chaplain… and slowly recover themselves… and get back to the tough work with renewed calm… mostly. The ones that cant be recovered, have to be removed and given time to recover… if ever… from the job PTSD.
Even ancient Roman physicians understood that the strongest men’s minds and bodies eventually ‘break-down’… and had to be ‘fixed’… after unrelenting hard work, disasters, warfare, etc.
I flew the Cobra Gunship in Vietnam for a year and the only thing that worked was a good crew chief to keep it running reliably, a good armourer to feed the 7.62 minigun and load the 2.75 air to ground rockets and a thorough knowledge of the operational requirements of each mission. The religious hoky poky added nothing to my survival. One Cobra pilot on our team was recovered from the jungle with a bullet hole through the bible he carried in the left pocket of his flight suit.
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