Marine accused of choking wife at hotel

Marine accused of choking wife at hotel
October 26, 2011 3:51 AM
LINDELL KAY - DAILY NEWS STAFF
A Camp Lejeune Marine remained in the Onslow County Jail late Tuesday after being charged over the weekend with choking his wife in front of the couple’s young child.

Lance Cpl. Mark David Reinhold Jr., 21, was charged by the Jacksonville Police Department with assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury with a minor present, assault on a female and failure to store a firearm to protect a minor.

Reinhold is accused of grabbing his wife around the neck and punching her in the face. His alleged grip supposedly left red marks on her neck, according to arrest warrants on file at the Onslow County Courthouse.
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Does he have PTSD? Not sure but on thing is clear, he isn't the only one being charged with a crime.

There are more and more reports coming out about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan coming home and being involved with law enforcement for the wrong reasons. Flashback to the years after Vietnam when many of them were arrested and jailed instead of being helped to recover from where we sent them. The percentage of Vietnam veterans compared to these new veterans ending up in jail will be a lot worse. Why? Because of all the redeployments increasing the risk of PTSD by 50% for each time redeployed. Most Vietnam veterans served one year and then they were done. There was a recent report of an Army Ranger killed in action on his 14th deployment. Think about that the next time you don't want to understand the constant threat to their lives ten years after troops were sent to Afghanistan and eight years after they were sent into Iraq.

Do we have a huge problem? Yes. Last night on Current TV I came across these reports putting together news stories like the ones I've been tracking here since 2007. Does it mean they are all in trouble with the law? Hell no. When you consider there were 2 million deployed into these war zones, you realize the vast majority of them are not involved with any kind of criminal charges. What we do have is a lot of suffering veterans at all different levels with just as many different outcomes.

If you take nothing else away from these videos, consider that these men and women were willing to die for the sake of someone else but when they came home, things ended up much differently.

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