The reward for psychological injuries is that you did your duty as a soldier. That’s enough. Keep the Purple Heart for actual physical wounds.
...and as the article mentioned traditional rewards are in place as well....(nearly) life time medical care unparalleled in private care, medals, honors, (usually) Respect with a capital ‘R’, more ‘brothers’ to talk about PTSD effects than ‘private industry’, etc. And while the ‘old’ VA may have underperformed on this issue, the current impetus in psychological well being of our veterans is unparalleled on the planet!
Just an aside, but perhaps in the success of creating ‘the Army of one’, the highly disciplined, highly skilled, (perhaps a little robotic) trained to execute orders instantly on command SOLDIER....we forget that on ‘outprocessing’ back into civilized society, no one will be there to ‘give the order’ to the VETERAN! Now most figure that out, no problem, but not all military exits yield a veteran comfortable in the civilized ‘society’ he returns to....that often doesn’t ‘look the same’ as he remembers society should look....just say’n. The first place I’d go is a ‘self help book’ like ‘The Me Nobody knows’, or ‘I’m OK, You’re OK’, or PsychoCybernetics (Maxwell Malz -sp?)....just so I could avoid the liberal Pop psychologists out there!...But then, I haven’t really thought it thru as much as I should...