Johnson reports that the US government is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with the increasing number of volatile confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans. ( www.smh.com.au ) There appears to be an urgent need to defuse crises in which police faced tactical disadvantages against mentally ill suspects who were trained in modern warfare as even SWAT teams are finding themselves without the experience to tackle such ex-military personnel. There also appears to be no data that specifically tracks police confrontations with suspects now or formerly associated with the military. But an army report issued this year found that violent offences in the service were up 1 per cent while non-violent offences increased 11 per cent between 2010 and last year. Another recent Sydney Morning Herald article provides explicit examples of where such highly trained former military people have created havoc titled: Trauma of Tours may link US tragedies. ( www.smh.com.au ) What is in evidence is that the volume of violent incidents involving military personnel off base that has ratcheted up to a level never seen before. Not only a US or UK issue Clearly there is an issue and it not applies to the USA, rather it applies to everyone nation where war veterans return home and are somehow expected to settle back into routine civilian life although programs to de-program these military people have been put in place. These programs are based on the latest psychological analysis and the