(b) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Memorandum, DoD Source Selection Procedures of 4 March 2011. (c) DoD Directive 5000.1, The Defense Acquisition System of 12 May 2003. (d) DoD Instruction 5000.2, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System of 8 December 2008. (e) SECNAVINST 5000.2E.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For or other kinds of stress, see Stress. Incident stress is a condition caused by acute stress which overwhelms a staff person trained to deal with critical incidents such as within the line of duty for first responders, EMTs, and other similar personnel.
Some might believe PTSD and critical incident stress are the same thing. I chose to separate the two for a number of reasons. Most prevalent in my decision to separate the two were some discrepancies in symptoms and the natural aversion by officers to labels such as PTSD.