| One major cause of suicide is to avoid deploying in the first place.
Another is the length of the deployments. Air Force gets 6 months at the worst. Army might as well be stationed there and call it going home on leave, instead of pretending like putting your youngest troops there is a temporary thing.
Another is what happens back home during deployments. When a 6 month turns into a 12 months turns into an 18 month, many very good women end up doing some very sad things... including infidelity and divorce. Pregnant women when deployment starts go through it all alone and are single moms for upwards of a year... if daddy survives and comes home. Lots of soldiers have died never seeing their children.
But you end up with troops killing themselves because the one thing they felt like they were fighting for and was their motivation to survive is gone.
As far as calling them sissies... I'd rather not be banned from the site permanently.
I can just say that, as a veteran who has seen combat, it's one of the small handful of experiences that you have no basis for comment if you haven't experienced.
IT'S A BOY!!  |