Exclusive: Buttigieg says he suffered depression on return from Afghanistan

axios.com ^ | 6/16/19 | Mike Allen

[CaptainK]

ete Buttigieg told "Axios on HBO" that although he wasn't diagnosed with PTSD after returning from Afghanistan after a 7-month deployment in 2014, "there's a level of depression ... that I went through when I came back."

Why it matters: This is a new window into Buttigieg's unusual experience of serving as a 32-year-old, then returning to resume his job as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.......

Buttigieg told me the feeling lasted about a year, and that he never felt he needed medical treatment.

[CaptainK]

I he was never treated for his depression I wonder why he went on record with it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

He missed his Afghan tent boy.

[bkopto]

If cupcake is so fragile, then why should he be president?

[PGR88]

He missed his Afghan tent boy.

Replaced by a South Bent rent boy

[Rashputin]

Seven months without literally getting the shaft, as opposed to the figurative shafting common to military service, probably did put the poor thing into a deep depression.

[MSF BU]

As a JAG officer? How many line officers and those serving at the combat arms battalion level have returned without any problems. Reagan had it right with his ‘We ask, Don’t join” policy.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

They say that Ghanny goats are very docile and obedient.

[Seruzawa]

Oh boo hoo. Cry me a river, REMF.

[Cowboy Bob]

He’s the Thomas Eagleton of the 2020 election!

[JBW1949]

From what I’ve heard, his duties in Afghanistan were serving as driver for a general moving around the base...

Someone posted a picture of him wearing brand new Combat Uniform and empty magazine pouches...

[bert]

He’s queer....... that’s all, no more there

[Yo-Yo]

That’s ringing endorsement to have your finger on ‘the button.’

[JBW1949]

OK...Just looked it up:

While deployed, he was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, a counterterrorism unit that targeted Taliban insurgency financing.

Looks like he was an accountant....

[Oldexpat]

Poor baby. My son has done three in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. A lot of guys and gals have been in and out for the last 17!years. Buttpeg was never shot and did not earn his Navy CAR.

[Beagle8U]

Oh boo hoo...Fry me a liver.

[Eddie01]

[richardtavor]

If he was a JAG, he probably never understood the difference between a rifle and a gun, so he had fun with his gun...old joke//

[alternatives?]

He is trying to check off another victim box. It’s the Democrat way.

[robowombat]

What did this man actually do in Afghanistan? I have seen a half dozen different descriptions of his duties he performed. Inquiring minds want to know.

[Junk Silver]

He’s one soldier who just couldn’t bear to leave his buddy’s behind.