Posted on Feb 10, 2022
Air Force policies are driving airmen to take their own lives
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SSG Franklin Briant
It's not. All the forces have the same problem and nothing is being done, or very little.
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I knew a few Marines who took their own life. One was my brother who came back from Vietnam with severe PTSD and an alcoholic. He never got help when he was on active duty and refused to get help after he was out of the service. On the night of his 40th birthday he attempted suicide and shot himself in the back of the head with the bullet exiting the left side top of his skull. He lived but was hardly more than a vegetable. He passed away thirteen years later. He didn't want to admit he had a problem and trusted nobody to talk to about it when he returned to the states for fear it would make him look less like a man and it would be put on his record.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
Cpl Vic Burk So sorry about your brother. It has always been a problem for warriors.
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SSG Bill McCoy
Sorry that happened to him Cpl Vic Burk. I had two cousins - brothers who did the same thing. One a Vet suffered debilitating migraines back when the VA was at its worst. The other over the loss of his brother KIA in Vietnam. In both their cases, immediate family didn't see the signs except the one with the migraine had tried for some years to driink the pain away. When it happens, everyone is shocked until that passes then they always think how they COULD have helped. However, when people refuse to accept or seek help, there's not much that can be done.
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Cpl Vic Burk
SSG Bill McCoy - Sorry to hear of the loss of you cousins. I tried to get my brother to get help. He always insisted that he was ok and didn't need anybody to help him. Denial is sometimes a hard thing to accept. Such a waste of life.
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