PTSD suicide delayed by USMC planning process

[Guns]

Operations Officer With PTSD Still Planning Suicide After Five Years

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC — Operations officer Maj. Greg Walsh has vivid memories of both Iraq and Afghanistan, having deployed with infantry battalions since he was a lieutenant. Haunted by memories of death at war and troubles at home, he decided to kill himself, becoming part of a tragic epidemic that has devastated the entire Department of Defense.


However, that decision came five and a half years ago. Today, Walsh’s suicide remains stalled in the middle stages of the complicated and bureaucratic formal planning process that the Marine Corps taught him was essential for making important decisions in the high pressure environment of combat.




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[jumpinjarhead]

Operations Officer With PTSD Still Planning Suicide After Five Years

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC — Operations officer Maj. Greg Walsh has vivid memories of both Iraq and Afghanistan, having deployed with infantry battalions since he was a lieutenant. Haunted by memories of death at war and troubles at home, he decided to kill himself, becoming part of a tragic epidemic that has devastated the entire Department of Defense.


However, that decision came five and a half years ago. Today, Walsh’s suicide remains stalled in the middle stages of the complicated and bureaucratic formal planning process that the Marine Corps taught him was essential for making important decisions in the high pressure environment of combat.




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Not much is said as to other modalities of treatment being afforded in the interim but I would hope the good doctor mentioned in the piece is not relying solely or even primarily on staff planning principles to keep this man alive.

 

[jimmys_best_mate]

Not much is said as to other modalities of treatment being afforded in the interim but I would hope the good doctor mentioned in the piece is not relying solely or even primarily on staff planning principles to keep this man alive.

I may be wrong but somehow I don't think the article is entirely real...

 

[smallbrownprivates]

I may be wrong but somehow I don't think the article is entirely real...

NSS - look who the FBI are trying to find. http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/confused-fbi-agent-continues-search-for-harlem-sheikh/
A military onion me'thinks.

Edit to add: don't think this is serious either http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/07/afghan-army-responds-to-american-corpse-defiling/

 

[jumpinjarhead]

I may be wrong but somehow I don't think the article is entirely real...

I realized given the forum it was in and the larger tone of the piece that there was a tongue in cheek aspect but to the extent any of the approach is being used I stand by my comment.

 

[BryanTheMegalodon]

JJH , I think your spaghetti tree needs trimming back a bit.

 

[ACAB]

Nah, shite, this one's better:

Man Unsure What To Do With Grandfather’s WWII Japanese Skull Collection - The Duffel Blog

or this:

Marines Go On Killing Spree In 'Blue-on-Red' Attack

 

[Schermuly]

Dear Guns,
You’re a mod (tugs forelock) so I guess you have good reason for starting a thread with an article that satirises/takes the piss out of PTSD.
Fair play, it’s the NAAFI.
However, please just confirm that you have been on hectic ops that have left you unscathed, as opposed to the members on here who have been on hectic ops and, much against their will, have been affected.
Standing by, over.

 

[BryanTheMegalodon]

Dear Guns,
You’re a mod (tugs forelock) so I guess you have good reason for starting a thread with an article that satirises/takes the piss out of PTSD.
Fair play, it’s the NAAFI.
However, please just confirm that you have been on hectic ops that have left you unscathed, as opposed to the members on here who have been on hectic ops and, much against their will, have been affected.
Standing by, over.

I think you need to contact the MOD urgently mate. You clearly handed in your sense of humour by mistake when you handed back your Martini-Henry. I appreciate that you may class Umboto Gorge as 'hectic ops' however those sharpened mangoes never got within 200 yards of our fair maiden's chasteness.

 

[Schermuly]

Keep sharpening those dinosaur teeth, mate. Carborundum's always good.
And do regale us with your tales of derring-do on hectic ops where you remained totally unscathed.
Standing by, over.

 

[ooooh_matron]

Keep sharpening those dinosaur teeth, mate. Carborundum's always good.
And do regale us with your tales of derring-do on hectic ops where you remained totally unscathed.
Standing by, over.

Your post makes me want to charge in to the military section of the Queen Elizabeth hospital shouting 'contact front' whilst tossing flashbangs at amputees.

 

[Schermuly]

Carry on MacDuff.
Looking forward to seeing it on the news if you only had the guts to back up your bluster.

 

[Goldbricker]

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I wee'd a little when I saw this in the related articles.

As one of the Combat patches I wore it did not fit the New ACU uniform

 

[ooooh_matron]

Carry on MacDuff.
Looking forward to seeing it on the news if you only had the guts to back up your bluster.

Bore off crocadillacunt.

 

[Schermuly]

Reciprocally, cunt off dickhead.
We're never going to see eye-to-eye, more's the pity.
There are physical injuries, and then there are psychological injuries. Sometimes both.
Deal with it.

 

[Guns]

Sorry I wasn't aware you were the arbiter of taste here in NAAFI.

Can I check what is acceptable - surprise sex, Maddie stories or homo-erotic descriptions of prison punishment?

There was me think Squadie humour, you know to over come the bad shit, have a laugh and all that.

I could post you are a dull twat but I am a MOD so will refrain and instead of posting you are a dull twat I will just think to myself, what a dull twat.

 

[JoeCivvie]

Nah, shite, this one's better:

...
Marines Go On Killing Spree In 'Blue-on-Red' Attack

Cock.

That story is OBVIOUSLY from the BBC.

 

[ACAB]

Cock.

That story is OBVIOUSLY from the BBC.

I thought the 'blue on red' could have come straight from a BBC report!


Oh, edited to add (to be original) Fuck Off, Bellend!

 

[Schermuly]

Sorry I wasn't aware you were the arbiter of taste here in NAAFI.

Can I check what is acceptable - surprise sex, Maddie stories or homo-erotic descriptions of prison punishment?

There was me think Squadie humour, you know to over come the bad shit, have a laugh and all that.

I could post you are a dull twat but I am a MOD so will refrain and instead of posting you are a dull twat I will just think to myself, what a dull twat.

Dear Guns, (tugs forelock)
I am tremendously honoured by your unexpected reply to one so unworthy as I. Thank you, Squire.

However, I beg your indulgence for a lowly wretch such as I in translating this crucial part of your missive - I am so sorry, m'lord, I can't make sense of it: "There was me think Squadie humour, you know to over come the bad shit, have a laugh and all that."

Please, kindly Sir, send key setting, over.

 

[CanteenCowboy]

Not much is said as to other modalities of treatment being afforded in the interim but I would hope the good doctor mentioned in the piece is not relying solely or even primarily on staff planning principles to keep this man alive.

I think your sense of humour maybe MIA.

Or possibly you handed it in when first went to the Island?


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