(CBS News) – This Veterans Day, advocates are raising awareness about traumatic brain injury and the impact of these types of wounds on the post-9/11 military generation.
Dozens of service members have suffered TBIs during the current conflict with Iran, and hundreds of thousands of veterans have been diagnosed with it over the quarter-century of the U.S.’s global war on terrorism. The recovery can be lifelong.
“The only thing I sort of remember is kind of a mayday call,” Army veteran Jon Kohl told CBS News, recalling his 2013 helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The crash happened just one month shy of Kohl’s 25th birthday, leaving him gravely wounded with a spinal cord injury, broken bones and a severe TBI. CONTINUE