[Carolm1958]

It's a no win situation. If the soldiers aren't going in with mental problems, many of them are coming out of their with them. What they have to go through and endure, no one can imagine.

They break the men and women down mentally physically and emotionally, only to build them up to be what they want them to be. Then after them having to perform duties that the average civilian can't do, like take another man, women or child's life, they are released back to civilization without any support of any kind. No deprogramming so to speak.

So now the rate of spousal murders is on the rise with the title attached to it of "Post traumatic stress syndrome". So if you can come up with a name for this illness that all that training caused, why can't they do something for these people to help them with it. Giving it a name is not good enough.

A good solider takes his orders and follows through with them. There is a soldier where I live that did exactly that and is now in prison for following those orders. A superior officer ordered the killing of a village of women and children and civilian men too. If he disobeyed that order, he gets court martialed. If he obeys those orders, he gets court martialed.

I am grateful for the protection our service men and women provide for us, but they are getting short changed because no one will provide them what they need to be civilians again. They are not the same persons they were when they were first deployed and it's hard on all of them. Many of them turn to drugs or drinking because they just don't want to feel anything any more. That stinks.