The American Legion's National Security/Foreign Relations Director Barry Searle is attending the launch of a lengthy study on PTS in Washington. The four-year “Assessment of Ongoing Effects in the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress” is sponsored by the Department of Defense and will examine the effects of PTS treatment by the DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Searle will report his observations to the next meeting of the Legion’s ad-hoc committee on traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress in mid-March.