[Karlmarks]

Watching Morning Joe. and they had a Col. Jacobs and another fellow {Time Editor?} on talking about the suicide rate and what the military was trying to do about it. The Col. seemed to be saying the families and the public were to blame, and beyond that the military just couldn't figure it out, or they were doing the damn level best to keep soldiers from "checking out".

I thought it would be helpful for some of the truth tellers around here to explain it, for them.

I was in the army 4 years 10 months and twenty eight days, and I think it is rather obvious. The col. brought up how the troops were treated after Viet Nam, and seemed to think that was somehow different because a lot of those folks were drafted, as if the volunteers ought to learn to live with their choice. F^%#*&g tool. I will have more to say later.