There is no better example of the soldier Reactive Attachment syndrome than the Army Warrior Transition Units (WTUs) . Multiple sources reveal the WTUs were a reaction (there is that word again) to the discovery of deplorable conditions provided wounded soldiers at the Army’s flag ship medical institution, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The fix, so to speak, was to create the WTU system, or for soldiers with mental health problems what I call “suspended animation.” The Warrior Transition Command describes this vast organization in the following terms: “WTUs provide personal support to wounded soldiers who require at least six months of rehabilitative care and complex medical management.” I would take issue with the words “personal support” as it applies to soldiers with depression, anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with and without traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and commonly substance abuse issues. In fact there is data indicating 70% of soldiers in the WTU system are behavioral or mental health impaired. For those soldiers who have sustained exclusive physical injuries, a very uncommon occurrence, the system does insure consistent services in a standardized and safe environment. In fact, for physical rehabilitation of major injuries requiring surgical care and rehabilitation, such as amputations, the overall care is state of the art. For the soldier with a psychiatric impairment the care is rigid, impersonal, filled with the bias and stigma toward the mentally ill; a tone that has dominated the all services for the entire history of the United States military. Command description of the WTUs continues: “A WTU closely resembles a ‘line’ Army unit, with a professional cadre and integrated Army processes that builds on the Army’s strength of unit cohesion and teamwork so that wounded soldiers can focus on healing to transition back to the Army or civilian status.” By professional cadre is meant line Army NCOs and officers that have no training in any mental health discipline and most often no empathy what so ever for the soldier with s psychiatric issue, even when the soldier has been exposed to combat trauma after multiple deployments. As for the unit cohesion and teamwork, it is a total facade, in the full sense of the deception the word often implies. A soldier with combat related injuries, TBI, PTSD and severe depression does retain strong ties to his or her unit of origin, to those soldiers with whom they trained and experienced combat. But, when they enter the WTU system they are separated from their own units, and are housed and treated the same as a soldier who sustained a knee injury playing football or soccer in Korea or Germany and has never deployed. It is not uncommon that the “professional cadre” does not have any understanding or insight into the experience of the “wounded warrior” and treats the soldier’s in the WTUs as wayward children, like they were just entering basic training, or perhaps we could say foster care. An inflexible, uncompromising system that often makes the soldier worse. It is classical Reactive Attachment. It is politically expedient to express concern for the soldier with PTSD and/0r TBI, but in reality the WTU system conspicuously exacerbates the distress of soldiers with mental health problems. The best way to understand this issue is to tell true stories of soldiers who suffer under this system. I have been drawn to a group of soldiers who suffer emotional and physical trauma while trying to care for their fellow soldiers; the narrative will continue with a focus on combat medics.