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There's one in particular they wish it would rise with: https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/lt-col-stuart-scheller-being-held-in-military-lockup/
While the causes of suicide are complex and not fully understood.
Well they except anyone now days, do a better job screening and the problem will go away. I am a vet and remember the shit I went through in just the first week.
Maybe in your day you seemed to have a better reason for fighting? The last 20 years of middle east wars have been a complete fraud from the start, so being forced to kill because Haliburton and others wanted more power might be enough to make you pull the trigger.
Maybe in your day you seemed to have a better reason for fighting? Fuck that, I was drafted. I had no choice and the Military back then did a full evaluation, flat feet, colorblind, mental issues they did not except. Now they take mental ill, illegal immigrants anything that walks.
A little before the Afghanistan pullout my brother's medevac group was grounded for a while because everybody's stress hormones were elevated to a point more appropriate to experience in the middle of an active firefight.