Processing Carnage Involving Combat Team Members

An especially difficult process of reconciling trauma involving carnage of combat team members requires emphasis. When an explosion separates a team member’s body parts, either killing or wounding him or her, the not wounded participant sees in reappearing glimpses (as part of the process) his own body elements removed the same. Here is a simple, that is brief, explanation of how this process works, and TRT's role in ending it.

Fusion has hallmarked the team's development. And it is underpinned by projection of one team member on to the others, and vice versa. As different in the traumatic instance when death is an outcome (as opposed to carnage in wounding) the loss is more obvious (than projection and transference attends carnage by itself). As explained in the ETM professional training course's address of Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT) theory of combat trauma, loss of the life of a team member is, in the final understanding, equivalent to the loss of one’s own life. A team member dies and the surviving team member eventually realizes that he is grieving at the deepest level of him/herself the death of the partner who has done the projecting onto the deceased. Therein, that surviving person grieves two people’s deaths: the associate's and his - her own.

Carnage's effects are much the same, except that they are rarely noticeable and often only present from the unconscious or otherwise become available for processing in TRT, which never fails to address this issue. That issue will be confusion of the viewer's body parts that are still intact with the team member’s that are not. For example, when a combat partner has been decapitated instantly by explosion or other means, the living associate not only goes into shock due to the beginning of the processing of loss of the head of the partner, but through the projection phenomenon onto that partner the head of himself.

The experience can be represented by apparent confused and indication of destablelizing thoughts which frequently manifest by asking of oneself: “Why is my head still on my body while his is over there in the grass?”; or asked another way, she may say to herself “Why isn’t my head lying over there in the grass?” Here, combat training helps combat functionality with rote and helpfully overlaying thoughts - defenses against slaughter such as “This is war." "This is my job." "People’s heads are supposed to be," or at least "It is natural - normal for an associate's head to be separated from his / her body after an explosion."

Of special note and what you will learn in TRT, the carnage should be addressed first before the loss of the associate's life and the transfering of the death onto the viewer.

When the surviving combatant returns to a secure zone, ETM TRT will (or should) be applied via its near-term method. It, like the longer-term TRT application (when the event occurred from 90 to an infinite number of days out), will apply its laser like incremental efforts to expunge that particular trauma’s etiology. The address by TRT will reverse (remove) that etiology and end the delusional thoughts attending patterns of same constructs (more flash thoughts that transfer the carnage onto the viewer). ETM TRT's reversal of the carnage induced trauma etiology ends the transfer of the carnage onto one’s self.