More military suicides than battle deaths in Jan.

[volmanbill]

According to NBC News.

More suicides than battle deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

 

[tim]

NBC sucks.

 

[volinbham]

Terrible trend. Oddly, there appears to be no pattern with deployment - 1/3 were never deployed.

 

[hohenfelsvol]

Which to me means the number is very low. Not a good situation no matter where. Suicide sucks.
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[volmanbill]

NBC sucks.

I would suggest that it's war that sucks.

 

[Dustin4Vols]

my frien is over there and he has ptsd now. he says theres things over there that he will never forget and doesnt want anyone to see.he doesnt really talk about it either. he said he wanted to kill himself but he got on some meds and is doin better now.

 

[gsvol]

I don't want to be insensitive at all to this serious issue but those who committed suicide before inauguration day will never have to say they served under the present commander in chief.

As for NBC sucks, here is my list of most sucky;

1) CNN
2) PBS (includes their BBC segment)
3) CBS (does give PBS a run for the money)
4) ABC
5) NBC
6) Fox

They all suck, some just more than others.

 

[tim]

Point I was making was that now that there are very minimal war deaths the news services still report negatively. You know the recent election was all but uneventful, but that, I guess, is not news.

 

[gsvol]

Point I was making was that now that there are very minimal war deaths the news services still report negatively. You know the recent election was all but uneventful, but that, I guess, is not news.

Excellent point.

Nice coverage yesterday of the USS Cole families meeting with Obambi, oh wait, they didn't cover that story did they??