Isn't this just another bit of supposition and innuendo designed to stir up anti war feeling?
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CBS quoted the father of a 23-year-old soldier who shot himself in 2005 as suggesting that the military was covering up the scale of the problem. “
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Why in the hell would the military consider it a problem? Stress is not only common in a combat situation, it is all around us. People face death(danger) everyday on the LA Freeways, as they climb into aircraft and drive to work, walk the streets at night? Are we bothering to investigate the levels of suicide for each one of these possibly traumatic events in our every day lives? Is the mental state of a soldier related only to his or her current experiences, or is it some function of earlier phases of life?
Did anyone bother to check out the actions of the father quoted, towards his son, before the kid ever went into the army? Could his treatment have made the kid an latent psychotic?
I fail to see how such a statistic could reflect on the military health care system. It's probably the best in the world and is unjustly maligned by jerkoffs with some sort of an agenda!n Or should I say news persons trying to find something to sensaationalize?
