[Chancellor]

Quote by: xyzer Isn't this just another bit of supposition and innuendo designed to stir up anti war feeling? 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?

Especially if those streets are in places like Compton, East L.A., parts of Detroit, the east side of Buffalo. Life is sometimes dangerous.

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?

I doubt very much that it was merely the soldiers' experiences in a combat zone that led him to such a state of seeming hopelessness (more likely selfishness) that he saw death as his only option. Most soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who have been in combat don't end up becoming suicidal. No, there has to be something else going on in the person's 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?

Or how he was treated by his classmates or a whole host of other things. But what it comes down to is this: people make choices and they can choose either to be a victim or a victor.

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?

The military healthcare system leaves a little something to be desired (the ultimate example of what happens when you put healthcare in the hands of the government).