Posted on 11/04/2018 1:33:25 AM PDT by LoicW
A former mayor from Utah who has served in the state’s National Guard since 2013 was identified Saturday as the U.S. service member who was killed in an “insider attack” in Afghanistan earlier in the day, according to reports.
Brent Taylor, a married father of seven children who was deployed to Afghanistan in January, was a former mayor of North Ogden, a city of about 17,000 people located about 46 miles north of Salt Lake City. Taylor resigned from the mayor's office before he went overseas, the Standard-Examiner of Ogden reported.
Taylor’s death was confirmed by North Ogden City Councilman Phil Swanson, who spoke with FOX 13 Salt Lake City. Swanson described Taylor as a “one of a kind” person.
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RIP...My sincere condolences to his
family and friends...
Why are we still there?
*** Why are we still there? ***
Still guarding the opium Poppy Fields. Taliban controls most of the country. We need to leave.
I read we’ve had 150,000 US Military suicides since we’ve been there.
A beautiful man from the looks of his family.
I’d rather have him than whatever needs to happen in Afghanistan.
Words are not enough
150,000/15 years = 10,000/ year. Seriously?
No. More like 150/ year. This is in a force averaging 1.4 million members annually during the same period. The authors of the study linked below say this about average for a population that size. (See the conclusion in the report):
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/183/suppl_1/396/4959986
I’d seriously consider dropping wherever you read that statistic as a source.
Always the best that get taken ...
Heart-breaking.
From the row on row of medals and the number of stars on his shoulders, I'd say in addition he's one fine soldier. Terrible. The President needs to take action!
Deepest condolences to his family and friends. Another hero proving freedom is not free. God bless you sir!
OMG, wake up. Get off the opiods, try to show some sense.
My heart breaks for the loss of the family
Prayers to his family. I am sorry to see us still there. We shouldn’t be there, we need to have them on the border to protect us...
The Marine Corps was 175,000 strong when I joined.....you mean to tell me roughly the size of one entire branch of service worth of veterans has killed itself in the last 17 years?
They don't appreciate the US. We should not be there.
It was a VA study.
By the way, the study which was a compilation of active military, and veteran suicides state by state was under the direction of David Shulkin, the head of Veteran’s Affairs. He was appointed and fired by POTUS.
So, he was fired.
He didn’t author this study.
His firing wasn’t related to this study:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shulkin
Are you claiming that somehow his firing makes the study invalid?
If you insist in saying it is invalid, state why is it invalid. Two military doctors, one US Navy, the other US Air Force, conducted the study. They detailed their research sources and their methodology. It was peer reviewed before publication.
If you do not like what it says, be specific about the study’s shortcomings. Cite sources that support your argument for the portions you are disputing.
If you sticking with the 150,000 suicides figure that started this interaction, cite the source, so it can be evaluated for its reliability and accuracy.
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