Pentagon to expand brain trauma treatment for terror war veterans

The Defense Department plans to expand a program that transitions veterans of the war on terror in the Middle East from Pentagon health care to the Department of Veterans Affairs to include traumatic brain injuries, a signature wound of the 17-year war.

In a letter sent to Congress over the summer, the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for manpower and reserve affairs, James N. Stewart, said the United States would expand the so-called inTransition program, which aims to provide continued care to former US troops leaving the military.