The service also has virtually no policy or general guidlines for units to handle soldiers with suicidal ideation, and decisions on care are typically left to mid-level NCOs and commanders with no significant health care training. The Army is suffering from the nationwide shortage of mental health care workers, and soldiers consistently report appointment backlogs that can stretch beyond a month. The year he took the job, the Army saw 258 suicides across its active-duty and part-time components, a number the service has struggled to reduce. 6, 2021, insurrection the collapse of Afghanistan the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Iranian missile strike on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, which wounded 110 troops.īut it's mental health that has been the center of gravity for Grinston's tenure. Vanessa Guillén the pandemic President Donald Trump's rapidly shifting military policy the Jan. His time in the job has covered some of the most tumultuous and transformative times for the service since 9/11: Everything from the scandal revolving around the slaying of Spc.
"When I see those families, I just think about the kids that I lost." It brings back all the times I've personally lost soldiers," Grinston told, staring at the ceiling in his sparsely decorated Pentagon office as he gripped his camouflage pants. He talks often about struggles, and the toll service can take on troops and their loved ones. He sought therapy, he says, while encouraging others to do the same. What might make Grinston different, though, is that as a man in a leadership position he has been extremely open with his troops about the invisible divots those losses have left on him, and the struggles they've precipitated. Read Next: House Republicans Vote to Block VA from Changing Motto to Include Female Veterans
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