WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Many U.S. soldiers who suffer from the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were redeployed to the war-torn countries, a TV report said on Monday.

    The U.S. military is violating its own policy by sending soldiers who have not recovered from the PTSD back to the font lines, the Boston-based WCVB TV said in its website.

    Taking a 25-year-old soldier, Damian Fernandez, for instance, the report said that the young father from Waterbury, Connecticut, was classified as 70 percent disabled from the PTSD after he came back from the front lines, but the redeployment order still came to him.

    "All day long he was just getting more and more agitated until he said he was going to kill himself rather than go back," his mother told the TV.

    Another soldier, Michael DeVlieger, also got the redeployment order only one day after he was released from an Army hospital in Kentucky for acute stress disorder, the report said.

    "The closer that it (departure date) got, he kept saying 'Mom I'm going to die, I'm not coming back this time. I'm feeling it, I'm dreaming it. I'm not coming back,'" said Sue DeVlieger, his mother.

    According to the policy of the Defense Department, soldiers with serious psychiatric problems could only be sent back to the war zone if they were stable for at least three months.

    But the Army told the TV that they "do not want to stigmatize the soldiers by saying they cannot deploy with their unit because they have symptoms," and the national guard said that its policy "is based on the severity of their PTSD diagnosis ... that may limit their ability to deploy."

    Citing Dr. Judith Herman who specializes in PTSD, the report said that it is not safe to send a mentally ill soldier back to war.

    "I don't think it's safe for the individual soldier," she said. "I don't think it's safe for his unit either to send someone who is so impaired back into a situation of danger."

    Senator John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, also called for more time for troops to recover from the war trauma. "A huge number of these troops are returning with PTSD and we need to treat it," he said.