*** 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.
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.
OMG, wake up. Get off the opiods, try to show some sense.
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?