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TBI is the signature wound from soldiers returning from the Middle East.

The Air Force and Marines both have brain injury clinics specifically to treat TBI.

The Marines established a state-of-the-art facility at Camp Pendleton and will be a part of the Navy Medicine West Office of Neurotrauma.  

To read more about the facility at Camp Pendleton click here for a story from 10News.

The Air Force also has a brain injury facility in Alaska that was founded in 2007 at the Elmendorf hospital. 

Base medics and officials anticipated that some of the 3,500 paratroopers with the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team deployed to Iraq from Fort Richardson would return with the war’s signature wound.

There is clearly a huge need for these types of facilities to treat the growing number of TBI cases coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq.

To read more about the facility at the Elmendorf hospital click here for a story from Juneau Empire.com