I was reading the newspaper and came across article Army: Soldiers in slayings exposed to fierce combat. It described a report from an Army task force of medical expert who looked at members of Fort Carson's 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, known as the Iron Eagles. Soldiers in the unit were accused in five killings in separate attacks around Colorado Springs and involved in six more slayings in Colorado. The report compared the unit with a similarly sized unit and found it suffered more combat deaths in Iraq and was deployed there longer. "This investigation suggests a possible association between increasing levels of combat exposure and risk for negative behavioral outcome." The study said. It added that the soldiers faced "significant disruptions in family-social support." The soldiers accused of the killings had committed crimes before and abused drugs and alcohol.
Men returning in previous wars have shown us that combat makes you crazy. It is a premise of my book "Lost Survivor" (www.lostsurvivor.com). What you lose to survive, is what you need to live. Combat creates dark places in a man's soul that he runs from and hides in. To be in combat means to be crazy or dead. Men are discouraged from seeking mental help and belittled if they do. Which is why so many families lose love ones even though they survived the horrible experiences of combat.
Men returning in previous wars have shown us that combat makes you crazy. It is a premise of my book "Lost Survivor" (www.lostsurvivor.com). What you lose to survive, is what you need to live. Combat creates dark places in a man's soul that he runs from and hides in. To be in combat means to be crazy or dead. Men are discouraged from seeking mental help and belittled if they do. Which is why so many families lose love ones even though they survived the horrible experiences of combat.
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