Veterans Fed Up With Michael Savage After PTSD Rant

This started out as a rant about naming a tunnel after Robin Williams. Oh, by the way, Robin Williams went to Iraq and Afghanistan many times with the USO. The tone took a turn when a caller didn't agree with him. The caller was a veteran with PTSD.

Michael Savage Lashes Out After Veteran with PTSD Calls

What the fuck does Savage know about bravery? What does he know about putting your life on the line? What does he know about the price being paid all over the country? Hell, what does he know about how long it has been going on or what real patriotism is?

His disgusting rant against the veteran "You were a veteran at 20?" as if he didn't have a clue Vietnam veterans came home and yes, earned the title of veteran before they were even old enough to drink! What a damn fool! "Why should we be aware of mental illness?" Savage should be aware of a lot of things and there are plenty of real heroes ready to do the explaining to this twisted freak.

Here's some of the stories of men the country not only needed but were a hell of a lot more brave than this coward. Members of Special Forces not only have PTSD, some committed suicide.

Special Forces: commandos are committing suicide at a record pace this year Earlier this month, Socom commander Adm. William McRaven told a Tampa intelligence symposium that commandos are committing suicide at a record pace this year. Though he offered no figures, he was repeating a concern he first raised in February at a Congressional hearing on his budget.

Saturday, April 19, 2014
U.S. special forces struggle with record suicides
U.S. special forces struggle with record suicides even after all these years of the DOD saying they were taking care of the men and women serving this country. Even after suicides and attempted suicides went up. Even after even the "toughest" of the tough suffered. Anyone know what is going to change? How to change it? Who is accountable for it?

Joe Miller, then an Army Ranger captain with three Iraq tours under his belt, sat inside his home near Fort Bragg holding a cocked Beretta 40mm, and prepared to kill himself.

Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann, 25, of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, killed himself June 28 (2011) at Lewis-McChord. Staff Sgt. Hagemann had orders to return to Afghanistan for a ninth tour of duty.

Crowley-Smilek, 28, a former U.S. Army Ranger who suffered from combat stress and physical injuries from service in Afghanistan, was dead; shot multiple times by a police officer outside the Farmington municipal offices on U.S. Route 2.

Staff Sgt. Charles Reilly, is a Special Forces soldier who has been deployed six times in the past decade. She said psychiatrists have diagnosed him with PTSD, and he's assigned to Fort Bragg's Warrior Transition Battalion, where soldiers recover from physical and mental wounds.

Sgt. Ben Driftmyer was discharged and betrayed. Survived.

"I had spent eight years serving the military. I never got in trouble. Never did anything bad. And I got treated like I was a piece of crap because of it," said Ben Driftmyer, discharged U.S. Army Sergeant and Cottage Grove resident. Driftmyer was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder by Eugene doctors after he was chaptered out from the special forces unit in Baghdad. He suffered several mental breakdowns during his service, but his discharge was classified as "other than medical."

"Because the military didn't want to pay for me for the rest of my life," said Driftmyer.

Chief Petty Officer Jerald Kruse, served 19 years in the Navy. He was a SEAL, an elite warrior sent to fight in some of the toughest situations around the world, including in Iraq. “His problems really began in ’05. That’s when I really began to notice something was wrong,” she said. He drank excessively, stayed up all night and lashed out at her and their three kids.

Navy Cmdr. Job W. Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, died Saturday while serving as the commanding officer of SEAL Team 4, a special warfare unit based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Navy SEAL Robert Guzzo returned from Iraq, he feared seeking treatment for PTSD would endanger his career.

U.S. special forces struggle with record suicides: admiral
Reuters
BY WARREN STROBEL
TAMPA, Florida
Thu Apr 17, 2014

(Reuters) - Suicides among U.S. special operations forces, including elite Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, are at record levels, a U.S. military official said on Thursday, citing the effects of more than a decade of "hard combat."

The number of special operations forces committing suicide has held at record highs for the past two years, said Admiral William McRaven, who leads the Special Operations Command.

"And this year, I am afraid, we are on path to break that," he told a conference in Tampa. "My soldiers have been fighting now for 12, 13 years in hard combat. Hard combat. And anybody that has spent any time in this war has been changed by it. It's that simple."

It may take a year or more, he said, to assess the effects of sustained combat on special operations units, whose missions range from strikes on militants such as the 2011 SEAL raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden to assisting in humanitarian disasters.
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Savage said that everyone wants a government check. He said he was raised differently. "Raised to fight weakness. Raised to fight pain. Raised to depression. To not give into it and cry like a little baby" well he wasn't raised to actually go off and do the real fighting.

He has a brave mouth but that's all. He has to be the dumbest person in the country even though he seems to think he's braver than those who actually do go. "You need men like me to save the country" this bombastic twit! In case he doesn't know what the word means,,,,here it is.

The kind of person that makes a retarded chimp look smart.

Savage complained about "government checks" but failed to think about the billions being spent by congress, the VA and the DOD to fight PTSD or the fact they will keep paying long after wars are over. Failed to see that these men and women "looking for a check" will never make as much money from compensation as they could working on top of the fact while they were risking their lives 24-7 they also ended up making less per hour than someone working for Burger King!

Dakota Meyer not only has PTSD, he tried to kill himself. He also has the Medal of Honor.

The close call occurred in September 2010, just days after the first anniversary of the battle in Ganjgal, a small village in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Meyer said. He had been drinking at a friend's house in Kentucky, he said, and on the way home pulled his pickup truck over and took from the glove compartment what he thought was a loaded Glock pistol.

"I just remember pulling over, and it was at my buddy's shop. He had a shop that his dad and him work out of, and I just pulled in the driveway and was like, ‘I just can't do it anymore,' you know?" Meyer said. "I said, ‘I'm done. I just can't take it anymore. That's it.'"

Meyer pulled the trigger and was shocked when it didn't go off, he wrote in the book. He suspects someone else unloaded the pistol, but declined to disclose who it was. He subsequently sought treatment for post-traumatic stress and is doing better now, he said.

Medal of Honor recipient Ty Carter waging war on PTSD

Former Army Sgt. Kyle J. White said troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder shouldn’t suffer in silence.

“There’s no shame in going and getting help,” White, who was diagnosed with PTSD before he left the military, said at a news conference Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C.

The first thing that servicemembers with symptoms of PTSD need to do is reach out and get help, he said. “These servicemembers need to realize that they went to war and they made it back, but they might have some scars remaining. Reach out to your chain of command, and they will help you get the treatment that you need. If I can do it … then there’s no reason they can’t as well.”

Thank God there are a lot more like them than Savage. Was all of the above bad enough for you to hold this twit accountable for what he said? Is it enough for you to stop using the freedom of speech rant defending him while no one else is supposed to be allowed to use their own free speech rights as well to defend the troops and veterans with PTSD he just attacked?

He gets to say whatever he wants because real patriots actually fought and died to obtain it and others fought and died to retain it. Why should they have to suffer for what this POS gets to enjoy? Go back and listen to the exchange he had with the veteran. Is that really the kind of person you want to listen to? No one has to silence Savage. He just did a good enough job of that on his own because so far, veterans are fed up with him!