text: True.  But as a soldier who spent some time in the field and some in a secure compound, I can't help but think that the latter is a piece of cake compared to the former.  I'd much rather face a bit of incoming than risk ambushes, mines and booby traps on a trail.  
  
  I knew a guy who went completely bonkers almost as soon as he arrived in-country.  He couldn't handle that every "gook" he saw could be a Cong. He barricaded himself in an unused hootch.  Nobody knew if he had weapons in there.  It took about a dozen MPs using CS to get him out and onto a plane back home.
  
  In any event, my point was that there isn't enough information available publicly to critique how Santiago was handled by the medical system in Anchorage.