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Military is worse

My son was stationed at Lejeune. He did 5 years and got out. His BN was sent to Okinawa right as covid hit. They were literally confined to quarters for most of 6 months and given styrofoam boxes of garbage food to eat. The only PT was in your room and or you could check out to run. After they came back, they were put in barracks that should have been condemned (my son ordered cleaning materials out of his pocket for his squad to clean the black mold best they could) with two weeks of confinement/quarantine and still strict masking/contact rules even as the rest of the world was abandoning that. They had 5 suicides in 4 months, including two who were close friends of my son. This was addressed by a couple stand down days. Pathetic. He had a high school friend who was Army who committed suicide that Summer as well. That's a lot for a 23 year old to deal with.
Posted: 04/28/2023 at 08:10 AM ET
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and ANOTHER suicide at NC State today. Two in a day......................**
BobG 04/27/23 04:30 PM ET
DAMN..not again. Rest in Peace!**
HOKIERIT 04/28/23 07:52 PM ET
Military is worse
Happy Dog 04/28/23 08:10 AM ET
Wow! That is truly troubling and like you said, pathetic. I'm super
goodbadugly 04/28/23 11:25 AM ET
14 deaths this year, 7 suicides. 34% of students suffering from depression
CrystalCoveHokie 04/27/23 07:04 PM ET
What's changed so much to prompt this seemingly meteoric rise in suicide?->
HOKIERIT 04/28/23 07:59 PM ET
Have you anything about this ? Curious. Are things harder today? Are kids
DrMaroon 04/27/23 09:51 PM ET
I wonder myself...Maybe you've hit on something**
HOKIERIT 04/28/23 08:00 PM ET
Pure guesswork here, but I do think an issue young people have
Tafkam Hokie 04/28/23 08:46 AM ET
I tend to agree.
Atlee Hokie 04/28/23 08:40 PM ET
Good points.
RJHokie 04/28/23 08:08 PM ET
Social media can be very toxic.
RJHokie 04/27/23 09:54 PM ET
Social media is the devil, quite literally
Happy Dog 04/28/23 08:12 AM ET
I agree**
HOKIERIT 04/28/23 08:01 PM ET
I think psychologists believe 1 person committing suicide subconsciously
HokieDan95 04/27/23 05:07 PM ET
That's pretty plausible. I've done some research on mob mentality
Tafkam Hokie 04/28/23 09:01 AM ET
There was a famous case back in the 60's where a woman was getting beaten
HokieDan95 04/28/23 01:00 PM ET
Was kinda the premise of the movie Heathers. **
vthokieq 04/28/23 09:41 AM ET
This may be a dark, and morbid, and at risk of becoming TOS question
Tafkam Hokie 04/27/23 04:43 PM ET
I think my son rejected VT due to the shooting **
TomTurkey 04/27/23 06:57 PM ET
Neither would be likely to move the needle for me
Pylons 04/27/23 05:51 PM ET
The latter. Hopefully, I'll have a good enough relationship
hoosnowahokie 04/27/23 04:53 PM ET