re: Army's 'Captain America' dies by suicide after nearly a dozen combat tours

When I am able, I give what I can to this group:

PTSDUSA /Camp Hope

First heard about them from The Michael Berry Show here in Houston. They really are a wonderful group to support.

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I've given up trying to convince people that The Forever War is going to "break the sword." Sending our Army and USMC folks to the war zone for the majority of their 20 year career is going to eventually break the sword. It's breaking individuals. It has the potential to break our military system.

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Our military system is already broken.

You have a small percentage of troops carrying a large brunt of the burden. The shift to more specialized/smaller units carrying out the missions is only going to make it worse. Don’t get me started on the ones that skate deployments with bogus injuries or get pregnant.

I was only active duty for 6 years and I spent more than 3 of those in Iraq or training to go to Iraq, and I wasn’t in SF or a ranger battalion whose tempo is at least twice that. I can’t imagine having stayed in to hit my 20 at that tempo.

Yeah, that's a false flag.



- PTB

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Veteran suicide is always going to be an issue as long as we are fighting vague wars for vague causes to help people that couldn't give a shite about us.

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Common denominator?

Politicians

This country is in dire need of term limits.

Men rarely adjust well to normal life after war. They become warriors, you don't get the brotherhood nor the rush of battle in the real world.

GW will now have another person to paint a portrait of. Helps him feel better about the blood on his hands. Frick him.

RIP Andrew. I admire your tenacity, strength, love of country and war buddies. Prayers for your family.

Reality is that sometimes there’s nothing you can do..

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My dad did this on Thanksgiving Eve 2010. He walked from the living room to his BR in our camp and that was it. My mom, wife and our 2 young kids were about 15 feet away and heard everything He never got over the things he experienced in Vietnam. I think about him and that night everyday.

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My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.

I didn’t personally know the guy. But I know that every day there are people who appear to be the some of the toughest in the world and people look up to them for believing they are lose the battle within themselves with no sign of a struggle on the outside. I always tried to believe everything is good but I have finally accepted the fact that I have changed because of the choices I made in life. There are good days as well as bad ones, but trying to be better every day so I can remain present in my children’s lives is what I think about every day to try and keep myself from veering off too far in the wrong direction. But I know plenty of people who aren’t as fortunate and do not have anyone to help them through it, or have spent so much time in the fast paced life of combat that their mind stays focused on survival and when life slows down everything comes back around at once, and they are just never able to recover from it.

I understand where you were coming from with your comment, and if it was your every day construction worker, real estate agent, car salesman etc., I would agree with you and I would likely think the way you do. But for a guy like this who has lived through things that most people would not believe, because the human brain won’t even let a person believe that things war can exist. And someone who also happens to be in a leadership position, he lives with the pressure of making sure he takes on everyone else’s pain and problems over his own, he carries the responsibility of making sure they do not end up being the next face on the news. Until you’ve walked in those shoes and felt that pain, and realize that you will never again be ‘normal’, it’s just not fair to him or anyone else that carries that burden around with them every day to make any sort of assumptions about a death like this.

I'm glad you responded. You just seemed really upset and it worried me. I'm sorry you have that burden brother. Don't interalize that shite, it will eat you. Feel free to come call me an unknowing shithead again if that helps you get it out.



To elaborate a bit my first post was more of a tin foil hat maybe this is false flag or wife told him "those are jody's kids" and sent him over, not blaming the dude for doing the deed in front of her. I didn't want to speculate as both of those thoughts are disrespectful to the family and just musings of a bored mind.