When you return home from Iraq what is the military debriefing and mental health check like?

When you return home from Iraq what is the military debriefing and mental health check like?And when do they do it- does it start the day after you get home or when?

Answer by HDH
You outprocess from deployment with your whole unit. It takes a few days. I don't even remember the mental health check, it was that perfunctory. Heh.

Answer by Steve
It starts the day after you get back, I can't speak for everywhere in the Army but at Fort Campbell you have a 7 day re-integration period the first 7 days you are back to include the weekend where you do your medical screening and process all your paperwork to get your travel pay and numerous other things. As for the mental health check it pretty much comes from a post deployment health assesment that you fill out on the internet prior to redeployment, based on the answers from that assesment the army medical screening team decides weather or not you need to see a mental health proffessional, the problem lies in the fact that it only takes one time to look at the assesment and you know how to answer the questions to keep yourself out of the shrinks office.

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