VPR News: VPR’s Steve Zind reports on research underway at Norwich University that uses Transcendental Meditation as a tool to make better soldiers and inoculate them from the psychological trauma of combat.
Monday, 03/12/12 12:44pm
The military devotes a lot of money and resources to training for combat and to treating post-combat stress. Now there’s research underway at Norwich University in Northfield that uses a tool more associated with peace than warfare to prepare military men and women.
The study is looking at whether Transcendental Meditation will not only make better soldiers, but inoculate them from the psychological trauma of combat.
VPR’s Steve Zind has this story on a group of cadets that some are calling ‘Oom Platoon’.
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Tags: Cadet training, inoculate against stress, Norwich University, NPR, preparing soldiers for war, psychological trauma of combat, Steve Zind, Transcendental Meditation, Vermont Public Radio
March 13, 2012 at 10:19 am |
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