"The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps suspended the rescue operation and launched a recovery effort instead, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement, essentially confirming the military does not expect to find the missing Marines alive."
3 US Marines missing after aircraft crashes off Australia
By ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: August 5, 2017
SYDNEY — Search and rescue operations were underway for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia on Saturday while trying to land.
Twenty-three of 26 personnel aboard the aircraft have been rescued, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement.
The MV-22 Osprey involved in the mishap had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard and was conducting regularly scheduled operations when it crashed into the water, the statement said. The ship's small boats and aircraft immediately responded in the search and rescue efforts.
Combat PTSD Wounded Times Kathie Costos August 5, 2017 I was listening to a countdown of American Top 40 and heard our wedding song. I cried. There are certain songs we hear about lives we are living and we find comfort, reassurance and, if we're lucky, hope. When I met my husband, one of my favorite songs was "A One In A Million" and we picked it for our first dance. This picture was taken while that song was playing.
It was the second chance for both of us to find happiness. He was divorced and so was I. No one would have guessed we would end up being married this long. I never would have guessed that our life together would have started the war I had to fight standing by his side. Yes, a war. He went to war in Vietnam. I went to war in Massachusetts. I saw what PTSD was doing to him and needed to know what I was getting into before I took those lifetime vows again. How could I understand something I never lived through? My life up that point was actually the reason why I could understand what combat did to him. I survived enough times when I could have lost my life, including the day my ex-husband came home and decided I needed to die. He couldn't understand what all those times were like for me anymore than I could understand what it was like to risk my life for strangers. Now all I risk is my ego. The thing is, back then, the only way to learn about war and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, was to go to the library or college. I went to the library with a dictionary and a stack of books on psychology and Vietnam because of my Dad. He was a Korean War veteran and my uncles were WWII veterans. It was my Dad saying the words "shell shock" that sent me on this mission of my lifetime. At first, it was about discovering what I was getting into before it was too late to end it, but then it was about how I could help him find happiness and know that he was loved.
My Dad tried to get him to go to the VA for help. He had the same attitude his Dad had. My father-in-law was a WWII veteran, and so were his three brothers. They believed that the VA was for veterans who couldn't work and they'd be taking their place in line.
So, we just accepted the nightmares, flashbacks, mood swings and everything else that came with mild PTSD. It all became normal for us just as it became normal for me to help other veterans and their wives understand what I learned at the library.
It was not until something happened and his mild PTSD took over our lives, that I knew it was my war to fight. By 1993, when I got my first computer, the fight went online. If we were going through this, then I knew there were a lot of other people out there feeling as lost and alone as I was. I won't bore you with the details since I already wrote our story back in 2003 and self published it because of September 11th. I couldn't find a publisher to get interested in 2000 but I kept trying until that day this country was attacked. A couple of psychologists I knew were sent to Washington and New York and we talked about what was coming in Vietnam veterans before sending troops into Afghanistan made the news. I did some editing on the manuscript and kept trying for a while until I gave up and went the self-publishing route, praying it would help someone. Then I was encouraged to start a website to reach more people. Fast forward past countless websites up to this one, and it is all vindication of what I've been saying all along. This is a war about love because it is based on the love they have to the point where they are willing to die for it. In 2006 I started to make videos on PTSD and put them up on Youtube took them down and put them back up again. By 2009, I knew enough about all of this to predict a rise in military suicides when they should have been going down. After all, there was never another time in this country when so much was being done to help our service people and veterans heal. It should have worked and we should have seen more living and thriving but we saw more suicides. We saw more divorces as more and more families fell apart and more veterans existing on the streets. Men and women just like my husband. For a long time I blamed the families for walking away but ended up being shocked by the fact they stayed that long without know how to understand it. It was almost impossible for us, and I knew everything I needed to know. How could they have done it for so long without knowing anything other than the fact they loved them? Combat PTSD Wounded Times is ten years old this month but knowing these men and women, completely blown away by what they have inside, behind the pain in their eyes, is the reason I keep doing this. I remember 35 years ago when I was just as lost as everyone else. Listen to the words of this song and then maybe your tears will cause you to start your own battle for love. They are worth it!
Larry Graham - One in a million you
UPDATE August 6, 2017 I stay out of blogs and simply do not have enough times to read website threads. Every once in a while, I'll get something in my email that I am compelled to read. It happened this morning. It is a comment on Michigan Medical Marijuana. The author is "Garrett" and well worth the read. Here is part of it.
How can we explain, how can we help our loved ones to understand ... when we don't understand ... There are times, lives, like mine, when wives simply cannot understand ... and decide they don't want to be with us ... we're erratic, we withdraw, we need to protect ourselves, we fear leaving our homes, we have fears that we can't articulate, can't express in words that will help a loved one understand ... Yet we live ... every day, every minute, with thoughts no one should ever know ... A terrible outcome of our struggle is we can't talk to our wives ... we can't explain the things we "see" ... again and again, moment after moment, day after day ... but we never share those visions ... which of us would want our wives to know the true terrors that we see ... to let them honestly "feel" what we always feel ... how can we condemn them to our fate ... knowing the pain of understanding ... of knowing ... what we truly feel ... So they leave us ... and we know, somewhere inside, that it's for the best, for their health, for them to continue living ... That leaves us alone which may seem like an answer ... to know the terrors that we see is something we pray others never know ... never, ever, experience ...The problem with that logic is that we isolate ourselves ... we do save others from our terrible struggles ... but we leave ourselves alone ... that often feels best to us .. but it is wrong We need love more than most because we can't find self-acceptance, self-worth, self-hope ... within ourselves There is no perfect world ... we have only this one ... We need to support each other because only we can understand the horrors we face ... I pray for each of us ... I understand the pain of a wife leaving ... mine left me ... Please stay with me ... let's live together ... share our lives ... work to build something we can live within ... We are never alone no matter how bad it feels ... we always have each other ... we are the only people that understand the terrors ...
If you want to stay, then you better be prepared to fight for them with everything available.
Manhunt for suspect extends from Colorado to Virginia NBC 9 News Colorado KUSA Jacob Rodriguez and Allison Sytte August 4, 2017
Roberts is a MARSOC Marine - a highly trained branch of the Special Forces and is believed to be armed and dangerous, Dillon Police say. Roberts' family is working with authorities to try and resolve the situation.
The manhunt for a veteran suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder has extended from Colorado to Kansas and now Virginia over the past week.
William Roberts, 34, reportedly slammed into a Dillon Police car back on Tuesday after officers tried to arrest him at the Dillon Dam Brewery. A SWAT team entered the hotel room he was supposed to be staying in, but by the time they arrived, he'd already gone, police say.
Then, later that night, Roberts was pulled over for speeding in North Newton, Kansas - 557 miles from Dillon. When the officer that pulled him over learned he was wanted for hitting a police car, Roberts sped off, prompting a high-speed chase that spanned two counties.
Even though his tires had been damaged by spike strips, he got away and is believed to have fled in a stolen truck all the way to Virginia.
Police in Botetourt County, Virginia, 1,700 miles from Dillon on the west side of the Appalachian mountains are currently conducting a manhunt for Roberts. read more here
Courage when it counts Northwest Florida Daily News Annie Blanks Updated Aug 4, 2017
Abby Schroeder wants people to know her husband was courageous up until his last breath.
Abby Schroeder and her sons, Mason, center and Noah, right, lean over Lt. Col. Bill Schroeder's casket at his funeral last June. Schroeder as killed in a workplace violence indident at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on April 8 2016. (Abby Schroeder/special to the Daily News)
Lt. Col. Bill Schroeder, an airman who spent time at Hurlburt Field, was killed last April in his office at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland when a disgruntled tech sergeant opened fire and shot him before turning the gun on himself. Investigators believe Bill’s actions that day saved countless lives. And this weekend, he is being posthumously honored at the 10th annual Portraits in Courage program in Washington, D.C., which honors service members for their heroics. His wife, Abby, is attending the program this weekend to accept the distinguished award on his behalf. “It’s a way to honor all of these Air Force personnel for their actions that go above and beyond,” Abby said over the phone from Washington, D.C. Friday. “They put themselves in danger in acts of courage both in combat and within their communities.”
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What You Don't Know Is Killing Them Combat PTSD Wounded Times Kathie Costos August 4, 2017 Problem Veteran Suicide Data This is the report that started all the new charities screaming about raising awareness on "22" veterans committing suicide.
"To date, data from twenty-one (21) states have been cleaned and
entered into a single integrated file containing information on more than 147,000 suicides and
27,062 reported Veterans.
In addition to the issues identified above, barriers to full project implementation include
inconsistent availability of requested information in all states, barriers to providing non-resident
data and sending preference to provide de-identified data due to conflicting interpretations of
Social Security laws. Negotiations with states are continuing as we begin requesting more
recent years’ data as well as renewing or revising previously completed Data Use Agreements." That was from the VA Suicide Report released in 2012.
That report was followed up in 2016 that was from all states and the CDC. "As part of the Call to Action, VA has undertaken the most comprehensive analysis of Veteran suicide in
our nation’s history, examining more than 55 million Veteran records from 1979 to 2014 from all 50 states
and four territories. This report describes the results of this effort. It builds on data from previous VA
Suicide Data Reports, which were primarily limited to information on Veterans who used VHA health
services or from mortality records obtained directly from a small number 20 of states and approximately 3
million records." The problem with both reports is, some states do not have military service as a category on their Death Certificates. States like California do not have military service on their certificates.
"...A proposal for new state legislation seeks to help confront the issue by requiring certificates of death to show if a deceased person was ever a member of the United States Armed Forces. In addition, it requires the state Department of Health to access death records and compile a report on veteran suicides beginning in 2019.
Richard Sawyer of Marysville, a service officer with Disabled American Veterans, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, said the proposed legislation would be useful.
“They should have been keeping those records a long time ago,” said Sawyer. “If a vet commits suicide, it would be nice to back it up. Was he a veteran? Was he in combat? Could it possibly be related to that combat?”
Conclusion: If military service is not on the death certificate, then the CDC would not be able to include them in anything other that cause of death as "suicide" among the civilian population. Problem, Age Ignored Both reports state the largest percentage of veterans committing suicide are over the age of 50.
Key findings from this year’s report include:
In 2014, an average of 20 Veterans died by suicide each day. Six of the 20 were users of VHA
services.
In 2014, Veterans accounted for 18 percent of all deaths by suicide among U.S. adults and
constituted 8.5 percent of the U.S. adult population (ages 18+). In 2010, Veterans accounted for
20.2 percent of all deaths by suicide and represented 9.7 percent of the U.S. adult population.
The burden of suicide resulting from firearm injuries remains high. In 2014, about 67 percent of all
Veteran deaths by suicide were the result of firearm injuries.
There is continued evidence of a high burden of suicide among middle-aged and older Veterans.
In 2014, about 65 percent of all Veterans who died by suicide were age 50 or older.
After adjusting for differences in age and gender, risk for suicide was 21 percent higher among
Veterans when compared with U.S. civilian adults. (2014)
After adjusting for differences in age, risk for suicide was 18 percent higher among male
Veterans when compared with U.S. civilian adult males. (2014)
After adjusting for differences in age, risk for suicide was 2.4 times higher among female Veterans
when compared with U.S. civilian adult females. (2014)
In 2014, rates of suicide were highest among younger Veterans (ages 18–29) and lowest among
older Veterans (ages 60+)."
Conclusion: If all the new charities really cared about this, they would have read both reports and would not have forgotten about the majority of veterans taking their own lives everyday...according to them! Keep pretending to count them and show them they cannot count on you to care enough to read the reports! This is from a video I did back in 2007 on the OEF and OIF generation. We can care about the newer veterans committing suicide and manage to care about the older generation, if you pay enough respect to them and report facts. We can actually change the outcome but only if we open our eyes to the fact that talking about something without knowing what you're talking about is deadly.
