Ten hours after the horrifying attack at Fort Hood, Fayetteville Doctor Vaughn DeCoster got a phone call -- ordering him to the Texas army base as soon as possible.

He, and members of a mental health task force will spend the next ten days there counseling soldiers.

"Immediately after an incident, everybody jumps right in and provides services. It's the days when things get quiet that sometimes the problems begin to surface so we're taking the extra step and are going to be available that much longer," he says.

DeCoster specializes in combat stress.

He's worked with troops in Iraqi war zones and soldiers here in Northwest Arkansas.

Although the situations are all different, DeCoster says the emotional pain is the same.

"Whether you're down range in Iraq in a humvee and something awful happens or you're sitting in an office going through the SRP process getting ready to go overseas, it's still an awful traumatic event that there's just no answers for."

For DeCoster, the Fort Hood attack hits close to home.

"Some of these folks that were affected are from my unit so I kind of have some instant repore with them," he says.

Most task force members are combat veterans themselves, which will help them in the coming days as they try to care for their own.