Posted on 04/03/2014 5:17:40 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
See post 36.
Exactly. In fact, his mental issues most likely did not have anything to do with Iraq based just on the odds.
Well that is what I would like to know. We may eventually learn the reason. My son is deployed for 9 months.
Mine also. Currently at Kandahar.
It is criminal, just plain criminal that our trained and trusted military personnel are denied the ability to effectively defend themselves in a timely fashion. This BS has to end, now. Hey libtards, stop treating them (heck all of us) like children and show some respect.
Used to be 120 days got you the short tour credit
John Effin Kerry served 120 days in Vietnam
what a coinky dink
There was a push not long ago for veterans who were even thought to suffer from PTSD to have their weapons confiscated until they were signed off on NOT to be a threat.
Look for that push to reignite today because of this shooting.
My son is going into the service. I’m going to tell him he had better seek off base housing so he can be armed when on his own time. He is trained and practiced in handling all kinds of firearms - handguns (both revolver and pistol), rifles (lever, bolt, AR-style), and pump shotguns. I’d rather he rely on his own skills than the chance appearance of security forces...
I would look real close at all medications he's taken in the past 90 days especially antidepressants. To a very low percentage of the population it's like giving a person LSD. Doctors usually either do not know of that risk or consider it rubbish. Antidepressants are usually the first thing shrinks write. See you in three months.
Now in a round about way you are on to something. ADD/ADHD more often than not is a neurological impairment involving sensory processing. Persons with Neurological impairments are more prone to adverse reactions to antidepressants and this has been known for quite a while but ignored.
The modern explosives are so powerful that they can cause brain bruising or brain bleeding in bystanders 1/4 mile away from the blast.
Note the following:
At the same time an alternative view developed describing shell shock as an emotional, rather than a physical, injury. Evidence for this point of view was provided by the fact that an increasing proportion of men suffering shell shock symptoms had not been exposed to artillery fire. Since the symptoms appeared in men who had no proximity to an exploding shell, the physical explanation was clearly unsatisfactory.[4]
Viewing everyone but the elites as children incapable of making good decisions is the very basis of Nanny-Statism. And the polar opposite of the premises of our Constitution.
What really gets me is that no one ever asks “If the soldiers cannot be trusted with weapons, why are they ‘in the military’ to begin with? Why can they be trusted ‘over there’ but not here? Does this not imply inherent racism? Do we not value the lives of our allies from other countries?”
Why not recruit trustworthy people?
Now of course I know that the vast majority are 100% trustworthy. My point is that no one EVER makes the above an issue when addressing the military no gun policy in the media. Seems pretty obvious to me.
The drugs prescribed for “depression” and stress disorders often have bad side effects and make the twenty something person worse.
They take them because that is all the help they can get and they know that something is wrong with their mental outlook.
Church and counseling is non-PC and too costly for the latter.
Which of us volunteered at Walter Reed for 7 years?
That is what I was thinking, that 4 months would not have been a normal deployment. Also, it seems that he must have re-upped (maybe multiple times?), as I think the standard Army enlistment is 3 years. I am surprised they continued him (during 0bama’s regime?), if he had ongoing mental health issues.
I wish I could say it was a joke, but it's not. He's basically sitting on his @ss back at my in-laws' working on his lawsuit and waiting until he's 55 and can collect his pension.
I know of several Marines, who served in Iraq. They never were in a physical combat situation, but their camps were shelled 24/7 for months on end, and leaving the base for missions was clearly extremely stressful. I have to believe those conditions could lead to PTSD.
It could also cause Vestibular {Inner Ear} related injury. Vestibular Damage is a major cause of Anxiety Disorder in that case anxiety and even related PTSD being a secondary condition caused by the primary. You do not give them antidepressants.
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