Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife

madmartian · 2011-08-14T23:42:26+00:00

It's too bad he wasn't able to get help, and perhaps it might have been better if he was less religious too. That might have undercut some of the guilt he was feeling. Still, a very sad loss for his family. :(

Bobsutan · 2011-08-15T04:31:34+00:00

The thing that strikes me is that this is the N-I-N-T-H deployment to the sandbox for the same troop. This is completely ludicrous to me, and I was in the military for almost 14 years!

Also:

More U.S. soldiers and veterans have died from suicide than from combat wounds over the past two years.

Granted there's some hyperbole in that statement since suicide deaths have always been high for the military, but still...

ThePigman · 2011-08-15T02:17:44+00:00

Oh, the grim irony of the Conan ad underneath the story.

ThePigman · 2011-08-15T02:19:31+00:00

Said it before and i'll say it again - the only way to end unnecessary wars is to make the bastards who start them fight them. If that means kidnapping the scum and dropping them into the battlefield so be it.

neofool · 2011-08-15T09:04:02+00:00

The military is unlike any other line of work in the fact that you cannot just quit without ruining your life and depriving yourself of freedom. Perhaps he saw his only way out as being suicide, sad.

poopmachinery · 2011-08-15T03:49:29+00:00

I feel bad that my first reaction was "I wonder what he did"

IHaveALargePenis · 2011-08-14T23:14:18+00:00

It's funny how people justify this by saying "he signed up for it". Nobody signed up for stop-loss.

buster_highmann · 2011-08-15T07:50:30+00:00

He signed up to be a paid killer, in an army that has a history of killing poor brown people. Of course he's going to hell. I don't feel sorry for him.

Title	Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife
Author	kloo2yoo
Upvotes	28
Comments	25
Date	August 14, 2011 8:07 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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