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Why are veteran suicides so high wrt Iraq and Afghanistan experience

The numbers are something like ~8,000 veteran combat deaths ...
Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA
  08/21/25
existential despair at the pointlessness of it all? 20 fucki...
Rich Innerlife
  08/21/25
Realized they were fighting for jewish overlords and not the...
biglaw associate asking if link is worksafe @ 11pm
  08/21/25
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Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA
  08/21/25
it's the "disability"->infinite opiate rx->k...
KarIstack (Retired)
  08/21/25
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Burgergeld
  08/21/25
They saw and in many cases did a lot of extremely fucked up ...
Johnny Fartfucker
  08/21/25
Broad strokes of the most horrendous stories?
Risten
  08/21/25
Both wars were fucking pointless. 20 years of doing horri...
...,....,,........
  08/21/25
This might sound crazy but maybe it had something to do with...
jew hater
  08/21/25
lol at the thought of leaving a ten year tour in iraq and se...
i gave my cousin head
  08/21/25
what would have become of Pat Tillman if he survived? surely...
Rich Innerlife
  08/21/25
This is correct
Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA
  08/21/25
IME the army tends to attract a lot of people without meanin...
Sniggleur
  08/21/25
>shooting people at 500 yards with an M240B doesn’t...
disaster capitalist
  08/21/25
Recruitment standards were lowered a lot during GWOT Very ...
Burgergeld
  08/21/25
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STEPHEN MILLER
  08/21/25
Xbox and white monster
metaphysics is gay
  08/21/25
Typical victim blaming
Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA
  08/21/25
One feature of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was the likelih...
When I grow up I want to be a pumo
  08/21/25
When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thru...
Risten
  08/21/25
i read a pretty convincing essay to the effect that the afgh...
TheClub
  08/21/25
i think the crassly worded but essentially true Date: Augus...
Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA
  08/21/25


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Date: August 21st, 2025 4:31 AM
Author: Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA

The numbers are something like ~8,000 veteran combat deaths and nearly 60k post-conflict suicides

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49199828)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 8:25 AM
Author: Rich Innerlife

existential despair at the pointlessness of it all? 20 fucking years of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49199991)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 8:39 AM
Author: biglaw associate asking if link is worksafe @ 11pm

Realized they were fighting for jewish overlords and not their country

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200019)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:20 PM
Author: Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202255)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 8:42 AM
Author: KarIstack (Retired) (🧐)

it's the "disability"->infinite opiate rx->killself pipeline, although 60k seems unbelievably high

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200024)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:46 AM
Author: Burgergeld



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200149)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: Johnny Fartfucker

They saw and in many cases did a lot of extremely fucked up shit

I was in booze rehab/mental health inpatient for 2mos with a lot of Iraq/afghanistan vets and heard some fucking horrendous stories

Not to mention, they’re millennials so the above is on top of all the other very good reasons millennials have to commit suicide. Boomers got back from Nam and their Goldman Sachs partner track jobs & $10,000 NYC townhomes were waiting for them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200045)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:56 PM
Author: Risten

Broad strokes of the most horrendous stories?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202374)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: ...,....,,........

Both wars were fucking pointless.

20 years of doing horrible shit to people WHO DID NOT WANT US THERE.

Now they look back and all they have to show for it is a VA Home Loan, but prices are so out of whack they still can't afford anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200097)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:28 AM
Author: jew hater

This might sound crazy but maybe it had something to do with getting raped by scheming jews while the country got flooded with scammy third world nigger retards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200106)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: i gave my cousin head

lol at the thought of leaving a ten year tour in iraq and seeing all of the same mudslime goat fuckers living in the usa for free on ur dime when u get back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200113)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: Rich Innerlife

what would have become of Pat Tillman if he survived? surely he could not just go back to the National Fraud League after what he had seen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200124)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:19 PM
Author: Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA

This is correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202254)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:34 AM
Author: Sniggleur

IME the army tends to attract a lot of people without meaningful economic potential. Then it sends them on an awesome, high-adrenaline adventure or two for a year at a time. Eventually you wake up and realize the deployments have left your home life destabilized or destroyed, you spend more time filling out 1380s, 5960, and other worthless paperworks than you spend outside, and shooting people at 500 yards with an M240B doesn’t translate in a civilian job that can pay a mortgage. At that point it feels like it’s all downhill so why not check out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200126)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:29 PM
Author: disaster capitalist

>shooting people at 500 yards with an M240B doesn’t translate in a civilian job that can pay a mortgage

they could kill feral hogs in TX but maybe that's harder than people idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202281)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:46 AM
Author: Burgergeld

Recruitment standards were lowered a lot during GWOT

Very long wars, enlisted kept redeploying

Amerikkkan kkkulture is more fucked up now than during Vietnam, much easier to get harder drugs and more anomie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49200147)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:31 PM
Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202287)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 9:52 PM
Author: metaphysics is gay

Xbox and white monster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202355)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA

Typical victim blaming

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202640)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 10:47 PM
Author: When I grow up I want to be a pumo

One feature of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was the likelihood of multiple deployments. In the Vietnam era, you went once and you were done. Unless you wanted to make a career out of the military, you just had to survive your year and then you could move on. And even that still broke a lot of vets.

Iraq and Afghanistan weren't like that, because the powers that be weren't willing to institute a draft. Once you came home, you had to keep looking over your shoulder for years to come, because you might have to go back. It kept a lot of people from fully letting go of what they had experienced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202638)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 10:54 PM
Author: Risten

When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term. The land seemed scorching to his feet. Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through. With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!

Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God—so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202656)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: TheClub

i read a pretty convincing essay to the effect that the afghan deployment experience in particular was very similar to what men are hardwired for - living and fighting for survival with like 30 of your bros. losing that was actually what fucked them up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202733)



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Date: August 21st, 2025 11:45 PM
Author: Thomas S. Snorg 3813 Carol Ln Seattle WA

i think the crassly worded but essentially true

Date: August 21st, 2025 9:28 AM

Author: jew hater

This might sound crazy but maybe it had something to do with getting raped by scheming jews while the country got flooded with scammy third world nigger retards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2#49200106

had a lot to do with it. and on deployment the psychological cracks were beginning to show according to many many reports that i've read. there aren't too many similarities between what you describe and the contemporary military experience imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2Ã#49202777)