Sitrep October 31st 2013

A new warning over PTSD…are young and disadvantaged soldiers at greater risk?

 

As violence escalates in Iraq, could the  problems have been avoided.

 

A special report from Bahrain on Exercise Omar.

 

And…how remembrance is being marked by people of all faiths…and none.

 

PRESENTER: Clare Sadler

STUDIO GUEST: BFBS’s Defence Analyst Christopher Lee 

 

OTHER INTERVIEWS:  

 

A report on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, by  BFBS reporter Rosie Laydon

 

Jake Wood ,former TA soldier who diagnosed with chronic PTSD.

His book “Among You” is about to be published in paperback

 

Colonel Richard Kemp ,former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan , discussed the situation in Iraq

 

BFBS Reporter Laura Hawkins reporting  form Exercise OMAR

 

BFBS Reporter Kaija Larke reporting on how people of all different faiths, or none at all, will be marking this year’s remembrance day.

 

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