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| Author: | sgtgoose1 [ 13 Jan 2008, 14:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Another price of War |
This is a pretty good read heres the main link to the Whole story http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/us/13 ... tner=MYWAY and heres the condensed version from the New York Times Report: 121 Veterans Linked to Killings By DEBORAH SONTAG and LIZETTE ALVAREZ Jan 13, 7:12 AM (ET) NEW YORK (AP) - At least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the United States after returning from combat, The New York Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said it also logged 349 homicides involving all active-duty military personnel and new veterans in the six years since military action began in Afghanistan, and later Iraq. That represents an 89-percent increase over the previous six-year period, the newspaper said. About three-quarters of those homicides involved Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, the newspaper said. The report did not illuminate the exact relationship between those cases and the 121 killings also mentioned in the report. The newspaper said its research involved searching local news reports, examining police, court and military records and interviewing defendants, their lawyers and families, victims' families and military and law enforcement officials. Defense Department representatives did not immediately respond to a telephone message early Sunday. The Times said the military agency declined to comment, saying it could not reproduce the paper's research. A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Les Melnyk, questioned the report's premise and research methods, the newspaper said. He said it aggregated crimes ranging from involuntary manslaughter to murder, and he suggested the apparent increase in homicides involving military personnel and veterans in the wartime period might reflect only \"an increase in awareness of military service by reporters since 9/11.\" Neither the Pentagon nor the federal Justice Department track such killings, generally prosecuted in state civilian courts, according to the Times. The 121 killings ranged from shootings and stabbings to bathtub drownings and fatal car crashes resulting from drunken driving, the newspaper said. All but one of those implicated was male. About a third of the victims were girlfriends or relatives, including a 2-year-old girl slain by her 20-year-old father while he was recovering from wounds sustained in Iraq. A quarter of the victims were military personnel. One was stabbed and set afire by fellow soldiers a day after they all returned from Iraq. --- Information from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com Its a pretty sad thing thats why the DOD needs to look more closely and screen better after these young WARRIORS come Home. Goose |
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| Author: | fenderstrat72 [ 14 Jan 2008, 17:37 ] |
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PTSD is real and the DOD needs to make sure these men and women have ample decompression time upon returning home. Also, I would say those in leadership roles need to be more alert to abnormal behavior while downrange and upon return. |
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