Schockwellen durch routinemäßige Militäreinsätze, verbunden mit langfristiger Wut und Gewalt. Dieser Zusammenhang bleibt auch dann sichtbar, wenn andere psychische Gesundheitsfaktoren wie die posttraumatische Belastungsstörung berücksichtigt werden.
Shockwaves from routine military duties associated with long-term anger and violence
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The study:
**When the Fuse Is Lit: Association of Military Occupational Blast Exposure With Anger, Aggression, and Violence**
*Military Medicine*, usag217, [https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usag217](https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usag217)
**Published:** 13 May 2026
[https://academic.oup.com/milmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/milmed/usag217/8677075](https://academic.oup.com/milmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/milmed/usag217/8677075)
Abstract:
Military occupational blast and impulse exposure (MOBE) is a potential risk factor for increased Anger, Aggression, or Violence (AAV). The objective of this study was to assess the association between MOBE and AAV-related content in clinical text notes in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data.
**Conclusions**
This matched cohort study found that individuals who served in occupations at high risk for MOBE were significantly more likely to have evidence of AAV in clinical text data. Neurological and affective changes potentially linked to MOBE may be interconnected with other military health factors, such as combat exposure, TBI, and PTSD.
On a related note, I worked with an ex RAAF officer whose years of working around jet engines basically scrambled his internals organs. Military service really messes people up and we clearly need to do a better job of protecting service personnel while they’re active and also a better job of caring for them afterwards.
We’ve known about this since WW1. Originally called Shell Shock. Shell Shock itself got broken out into a number of things mostly oriented around various sources of PTSD, but the concussive forces of large caliber rounds produced what’s being described here. Good to see more research being done on it, but hardly a new finding.
This can’t be a surprise for those familiar with the world of TBIs and CTE.
My understanding is that exposure to such things through military or law enforcement activities has always been considered at least adjacent to sports related exposure.
The NYT has been reporting on this. I thought the phenomenon got a lot more attention after that veteran shot up a town in Maine.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/army-blast-safety-brain-injuries.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/army-blast-safety-brain-injuries.html)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/blast-mortar-brain-injury-military.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/blast-mortar-brain-injury-military.html)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Lewiston_shootings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Lewiston_shootings)
Shooter in Maine was a former instructor at a hand grenade range, taking literally hundreds of mild subconcussive shocks daily
I’ve seen people with TBIs. It completely changes their personality and how grounded they are with the world. These are symptoms they will live with for the rest of their lives. And I think most doctors are afraid to tell their patients that the treatment for a TBI is very limited.
Damn the hippies were right, it’s just bad vibes all the way down.
The other thing that isn’t talked about is how damage to the automatic nervous system (very common in head injuries) can result in damage to your internal organs like your gallbladder spasming all the time until it gets so inflamed and swollen that it had to come out, having urinary reflux which scars and enlarges the kidneys, and having incomplete paralysis of your digestive system. (Personal experience, some asshole wanted to drive triple the speed limit.)
Ex M109 artillery gunner here. Def an angry guy.