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NFL Players Tackle TBI with Fort Bragg Soldiers
As the war winds down, the number of injuries including traumatic brain injuries are staggering, and professional football players can relate.
NFL players will visit Fort Bragg on Tuesday, May 14. The players will meet with soldiers to discuss concussions and other health-related issues that affect both organizations at a roundtable discussion.
Soldiers and their families who would like to join the conversation are welcome to attend from 11 a.m. to noon at the Main Post Chapel. Have to work, but want cannot attend? Follow the meeting on Twitter @FtBraggNC, #TBI.
In a 2013 Congressional Research Report, casualties reported in Operation Iraqi Freedom totaled 31,925. U.S. servicemember deaths reached 4,409. As a Feb. 5, 2013 the number of servicemembers wounded in action in Operation Enduring Freedom are 18,230, many of which include traumatic brain injuries.
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