GI threatens suicide over return to Iraq

[donsu]

http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1413,96~3750~2566834,00.html


A serviceman, apparently distraught over the prospect of being sent back to the war in Iraq, threatened to kill himself as he stood naked and screaming outside his house.

Police took the man into custody at his Fernwood Drive house. He was taken for treatment to Bridgeport Hospital.

Dispatched to investigate a report of a possible suicide attempt Thursday, officers saw the man naked with blood on his body in front of the garage area, police said. As officers approached, the man yelled at them and ran back into the house, according to police.

After struggling with officers, the man told police that he was scheduled to be sent back to Iraq in January, but didn't want to because he would be forced to kill more people, police said.

The man, who said that he had been drinking, told officers that "he just wanted to die," police said.
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[tk2kewl]

1. Poor guy

everyone will say he is crazy, but he seems pretty sane to me

[politicat]

2. Depression is really hitting our personnel hard.

We who have military family members call it the <insert branch> face. They go stony. No emotions. They withdraw from their family and friends, and engage in risk-taking behaviors.

Their XOs and COs should be watching for it, especially in those scheduled to go back after having been there once, but the brass is depressed too about going back and they're missing it.

We're dealing with it in my family right now. It makes it very scary, especially the risk-taking behavior, because we know that if it persists once they get back in country, they're likely to not return whole.

This is the wage we're paying - another generation of shell shock victims.

Pcat

[Mike Niendorff]

3. tsk, tsk, tsk.

How impolite of him. Quick, somebody hustle him out of the ballroom before he ruins the gala.


MDN

[nostamj]

4. what will we tell the children, indeed.

sometimes it's the isolated, specific stories that really cut through the constant din of death the bushies have created.

damn them for eternity and a day.

[Cocoa]

5. a UK soldier went through with it

his father was driving him to be shipped back, the poor kid killed himself at a rest stop. :-(

[tk2kewl]

9. that sucks

:cry:

[damntexdem]

6. What's the difference?

Oh yeah -- then he'd be standing in UNIFORM screaming next to his bombed vehicle.

[chicagiana]

7. Section 8 ????

Is this enough to get someone a section 8??? Or will section 8s just be fed back into the front lines???

[Killarney]

8. that's so sad. Ugh.

:(