DOD clueless on what to do about military suicides and PTSD

DOD clueless on what to do about military suicides and PTSD
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
July 26, 2013

Erik Jorgensen, Spc. Brandon David Bertolo, Kenneth Jewel Stafford, who was on leave from his duty station in Fort Lewis and Pfc. Jackson Cole Taylor-Smith and Christopher Kent Heinz drowned in lakes. Fort Campbell 2 murders, 7 suicides in only 31 days.

These are just a few of the reports on Wounded Times for July.

If you want to know why. This is the reason. FUBAR results of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness

Suicides on rise among veterans
Idaho Statesman
JOHN SOWELL
July 26

During the year that U.S. Army Pfc. Erik Jorgensen spent in Afghanistan sweeping roads for makeshift bombs, a U.S. soldier died every 36 hours from injuries suffered in improvised explosive device blasts. More than nine troops were injured each day.

Sweeping for IEDs was dangerous, tedious and tension-filled work, said Army Sgt. Bryan Heidkamp, who served with Jorgensen at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash., and deployed with him to Afghanistan. It could take a terrible toll physically and mentally. Seeing four soldiers they served with die added to it, Heidkamp said.

“It was really rough,” he said.
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We can talk all we want about active duty suicides. We can talk about attempted suicides. When we leave out what is happening to them after they are discharged or leave out the National Guards and Reservists, we only know part of the story.

The truth is this program is about as dangerous as it can get. No matter how much money they shove at it, when you see results like this, it proves the DOD doesn't have a clue what to do and that is the most shocking thing of all. After discharge, the DOD can stop counting them.

If your really want to know then read The Warrior SAW, Suicides After War and if you want to know what we knew before Afghanistan and Iraq read For the Love of Jack His War My Battle