and its symptoms are appearing more and more in veterans but not from the preta blows to the head like the kind you find in american football in the n.f.l. but from exposure to bomb blasts dr ann mckee chief of neuro pathology it with the boston university told the media quote the blast injury causes a tremendous sort of ricochet or whip blast injury to the brain inside the skull and that's what gives rise to the same chain changes we see in football players as we see in military vet turns and so this raises the $1000000.00 question to me if traumatic brain injury can be gotten from the exposure to bomb blasts which is sadly pretty unavoidable even in training you know soldiers are subject to bomb blasts which you know are we essentially sentencing our soldiers to. brain injury and c.t.e. even if they just simply serve even if they never see a combat zone i mean sadly yes i mean the problem is when you sign up and i hate to say this because it hurts my heart even to think about this but when you sign up you are putting your life at a certain amount of risk and obviously you think of th