Gray Team

The Gray Team, currently evolved into The Grey Team, and more formally known as The Joint Neurosciences Inspection Team, was the name given to a series of special inspection units commissioned by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to serve as mechanism to help improve the care of American forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their missions were particularly focused on the “invisible wounds of war” such as traumatic brain injury or post traumatic stress.

The Joint Neurosciences Inspection Team
ActiveJanuary of 2009 to September 2011
CountryUnited States
Nickname(s)Gray Team
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Christian Macedonia, MD

As of 2016, a non profit was formed as The Grey Team by U.S. military veteran Cary Reinbach, implementing solutions for U.S. military active-duty and veterans to reduce and eliminate PTSD related suicides. www.GreyTeam.org Grey Team’s comprehensive health and wellness programs directly heal all the invisible wounds of war including, but not limited to: traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, self-medication, and isolation.

To accomplish this goal, Grey Team has built a world-class headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida complete with one-on-one personal training, infrared detoxification, low-level laser therapy, acupuncture for pain relief, 3D body scanning, community safe-spaces, and much more.

History: There were four teams in total between January 2009 and September 2011, composed of service men and women from across the armed services as well as civilian scientist volunteers. Each member of the team was nominated by the various armed services and approved to serve on the team by Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[1] Each Gray Team was commanded by Colonel Christian Macedonia, MD, the Chairman’s medical sciences advisor.[1][2]

Origins

Admiral Michael Mullen assumed the office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in August 2007. By that point, there had been numerous reports including print newspaper stories by Gregg Zoroya at USA Today[3][4] and the publication of the RAND Report Invisible Wounds of War[5] criticizing the US military’s weak response to traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder. Determined to avoid the mistakes made in previous conflicts (Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome), he established an office within the Joint Staff to work on these issues giving the experts in this office direct daily access. In 2008, he recruited COL Christian Macedonia to be his Medical Sciences Advisor. They jointly worked on the Gray Team concept and launched the first mission in January 2009.[1]

Nickname

The team's name came from the brain's grey matter.[6]

Notable members

Members have included:

References
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  2. "What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?". The New York Times. 12 June 2016.
  3. "USATODAY.com - Key Iraq wound: Brain trauma".
  4. "Col.: DOD delayed brain injury scans - USATODAY.com".
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  6. Weinberger, Sharon (21 September 2011). "Bombs' hidden impact: The brain war". Nature. 477 (7365): 390–393. doi:10.1038/477390a. PMID 21938046 – via www.nature.com.
  7. "How a Team of Elite Doctors Changed the Military's Stance on Brain Trauma » McKnight Brain Institute » University of Florida".
  8. Campbell, Justin S.; Koffman, Robert L. (2 October 2014). "Ecological Systems of Combat and Operational Stress: Theoretical Basis for the U.S. Navy Mobile Care Team in Afghanistan". Military Behavioral Health. 2 (4): 316–326. doi:10.1080/21635781.2014.963761.
  9. Campbell, Justin S.; Pulos, Steven; Haran, F. Jay; Tsao, Jack W.; Alphonso, Aimee L. (4 May 2015). "Psychometric Investigation of the Abbreviated Concussion Symptom Inventory in a Sample of U.S. Marines Returning from Combat" (PDF). Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. 22 (3): 170–179. doi:10.1080/23279095.2014.891510. PMID 25153983.
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