Who’s figures are these?
I was scared out of my socks in Vietnam, and saw some pretty horrible things in combat up to my ears, as did everyone I was with over there. But they didn’t show any signs of PTSD then, and I never did either, and have been just fine for 46 years now.
I found out a few years ago that one of my best friends in-country had scammed the system to get on 100% disability, but he’s a fake because he never went through anything that I didn’t go through. Knowing that can be done, I’m sure a lot of others have done it too, but that just means that they’re fakes as well and that the system can be too easily snaked out.
Physical disability is one thing, but even in such cases, lives can be recovered. An infantry medic and myself once worked on a guy who’d stepped on an AP mine and lost both legs, an arm and an eye. We thought at the time that he’d had it, but had come to learn several years after the war that he was married with a family and was raising horses out near Palmdale CA. That sounds pretty productive to me.
So I ask again where this figure comes from, and wonder if we’re being played in this thing by the likes of islamocommunist bastards like hussein and his ilk.
Granted, it seems to me the recruiting standards might have been lowered somewhat, as reflected by the likes of Bergdahl and that asshole that blew away Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. How these characters ever even got into the service raises red flags for me. But even there, I’m still reluctant to accept that 22 guys a day just can’t take it and are offing themselves.
Something seems skewed in that to me.
Don’t do that “thang”. You have not a clue. Quit, now.