The current administration in Washington has drained bilions from the miltary family programs to fiance other programs which can buy votes. Tri-care medical has been hit the hardest, housing, and just all together the agencies tied to miltary families. Private contract companies are shoveling millions into their pockets and allowing housing, medical, and services go under. There's no longer any watchdog agency to make sure the miltary is getting the best that the tax payer is providing. The veterans are getting the shaft in care as well although they pretend to have some new wonderful programs in place to help veterans, all of it hype and pretending tht something is being done. When a soldier gets deployed, the family goes through misery, messed up pay and family agencies to help them are being told to stall them, they will go away eventually. It's hard to fight a war somewhere when your wife and family are going through great hardship, especially if a member has special needs. So much money is being pumped into the homosexual recruitment because they can't produce families, and do not need a good percentage of family oriented programs, this is very attractive to the military brass who are increasingly becoming homosexually bound. Regardless of the moral and disease aspects of the homosexual life style, it is being pursued by the top brass. There are military family members being treated as discards, left medically unattened with great unimaginable suffering, as in my home. No medicines and no treatment because of a two part surgery not being finished. She was told, you are on your own, Tri-care no longer funds this second part. But, what about the unfinished surgery and the trama, pain, and lack of medication. Yes, are country is turning into a real selfish, all about me, and so caught up into what we thought or believed we just would never do, is now the norm and sought after agenda, which has nothing to do with defending this country and those who lay their life on the line to do it. Step on them the hardest, and weaken the country even more. There's something evil going on folks, get the monster by the neck or you will hear the pounding of foreign boots on your streets at night, and strange faces when the morning comes. Turn your backs who needs you, and no one to defend your selfish butts. May GOD have mercy on us all.

Mabey it's up because they found out that they are only making $25,000 a year as soldiers and legislators and politicians make about $100,000 for sitting on their butts.

duh. A person joins up thinking they're going to be a part of something good and find out they're just disposable tools.

How's your whole Obama/Bush INC thing going Repoops and Demicraps?

Main Reason why: THE VERY LOW STANDARDS THE ARMY HAS ON WHO THEY LET IN.

The next main problem is the Feel Good bootcamp they have.

When you cradle the weak, they stay weak.

No one cares to ask why the low morale.

Low to No paying jobs for civilians and the threat or pressure to preform on a daily basis to retain your service job.

What does the worlds most violent, arrogant society expect? You cause most of the major conflicts, invading sovereign states without justification and leave them in a greater mess than before your interference. Little wonder America is the most hated nation on earth. Little wonder so many of their military are unable to live with themselves are facing the consequences of their barbarous acts. This arrogant nation is slowly falling apart and few will mourn its passing.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Most of the wannabe tough guys in the military

aren't worth the effort I'm taking to type this on a keyboard. Who cares if some

maladjusted punk kills themselves.

I live in Jacksonville NC near Camp LeJeune. Every time I take my wife out for dinner at a nice restaurant there are always military wives there whose husbands are deployed, usually for the 3rd or 4th time. They are looking for companionship. I do not condone this, but I understand this. I am sure it is also the other way around when it is the wife who is deployed. I joine the Army in 63 because I pouldn't find a job. I was lucky in that I came home in 67 without ever being near Viet Nam. I was also unlucky that the Army did not understand that some soldiers like me go through a terrible guilt trip. I know I am just rambling because of my meds but I am glad the so many Viet Nam veterans understand my problem. Bring our troops home now. 2 more soldiers were just killed by a "friendly". @!$%# the government and the bloodsuckers who are making a fortune off these wars.

Shameful

Judgement day is going to be A Mother@!$%#er I hope they start in DC!

War is brutal, inhumane, and full of depravity. US wars are complicated by hypocrisy. Many soldiers realize at some point that it isn't freedom and democracy they are fighting for. Like Marine officer Smedley Butler in the 1930s, many see that they are being used to pave the way for corporate exploitation of resources and people. We can end war as a political and economic tool of the 1%. This is the way to take care of our young men and women.

It seems to me that I read about an army general who lost a son to battle but also lost a son to suicide. How horrible. A father should not bury his sons. The sons should bury their father.

No matter how depressed one is if they do not start using drugs or drinking heavily, most likely they will not kill themselves. The alcohol and drugs push them over the edge.

I'd go now if they'd let me.

My Brother is one of the 24 Suspected Active Duty Suicides from June. He Was Two days late moving out of his old apartment. They Stripped him of his Rank as Sergeant, which took him 10 years to get, Then told him he couldn't re-enlist because they didn't need "unsuccessful" soldiers.

He Shot himself in the head 3 hours later.

The army has no idea what they're dealing with, and they don't care. 165 kids a year is nothing to the u.s. army. Now we're in a fight to get what was left to us in his will, a hand sewn quilt my mom made him, his POS car, his laptop, pictures, books.... The person living at his house doesn't want to answer the door, or answer phone calls, therefore we can't get anything that belonged to him. The army won't execute the will, and the courts don't care to get involved because there's no money in his estate.

If you let your kids join the military, they're going to end up Dead or FUBAR.

The reason for this is because the DOD does not put a lot of money into helping veterans with mental problems. There are a lot of our soldiers who suffer from PTSS after coming home from the war. There is not a lot of emphasis placed on care for these men.