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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:30 PM
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Two Iraq Veterans Commit Suicide Near Fort Hood

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4806941/detail.html


Two young Fort Hood soldiers who served in the Iraq war have killed themselves in separate incidents in Killeen since the weekend, post officials said Wednesday.

Sgt. Robert Decouteaux, 24, of Rosedale, N.Y., died Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been airlifted from his home to a Temple hospital for emergency surgery, but he died while doctors tried to save his life.

And on Monday morning, Spc. Robert Hunt, 22, of Houston, was found dead in his apartment by Killeen police, who were alerted after members of his unit tried to contact him when he failed to report to work.

Carol Smith, a Killeen police spokeswoman, said Wednesday that Hunt's cause of death was listed as asphyxiation.

Decouteaux, a soldier for five years, was an M-1 tank mechanic assigned to the 4th Infantry Division.

Fort Hood spokesman Dan Hassett said Decouteaux served in Iraq from April 2003 to March 2004, and that he was scheduled to redeploy when the division returns to the war zone beginning this fall.

Hunt, a radio operator-maintainer, joined the Army as a teenager in 2001 and had been assigned to Fort Hood since August 2003.

He deployed to Iraq for a year-long tour in March 2004 as part of the 1st Cavalry Division.
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how many returning Iraq vet suicides are there now?

isn't there someone keeping a list?
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:34 PM
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1. Manchurian candidate syndrome....
...In 20 words:
Conspiracy, brainwashing, corporate greed, Gulf War Syndrome, paranoia, hypnosis, government corruption, mad scientists, assassination, terrorism, everyone is in on it. Also add suicide.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:37 PM
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2. Thats horrible
This just keeps getting worse. I don't know what else to say.
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 12:40 PM
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3. And there is no light at the end of this tunnel;
and what's worse is, there is no tunnel...
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