text: Are you talking military discharge, like Section 8?\nDuring World War II, soldiers with what is now known as "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" would be be labeled as having "battle fatigue".\n\nBy 1943 the US Army was using the term ‘exhaustion’ as the initial diagnosis of psychiatric cases and the general principles of military psychiatry were being used. Gen. Patton's slapping incident was in part the spur to institute forward treatment for the Italian invasion of September 1943. The importance of unit cohesion and membership of a group as a protective factor emerged.\n\nUnlike the Americans, the lessons of WWI were firmly in British Governmental minds. It was estimated aerial bombardment would kill to up to 35,000 a day but the entire blitz killed 40,000. The expected torrent of civilian mental breakdown did not occur. The Government turned to the WWI doctors for advice on those who did have problems. The PIE principles were used generally.\n\nHowever, in the British Army, since most of the WWI doctors were too old for the job, young, analytically trained psychiatrists were employed. Army doctors “appeared to have no conception of breakdown in war and its treatment, though many of them had served in the 1914-1918 war.” The first Middle East Force psychiatric hospital was set up in 1942. With D-Day for the first month there was a policy of holding casualties for only 48 hours before they were sent back over the channel. This went firmly against the expectancy principle of PIE