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=2...id#49200045)

One about a grenade that went off inside a tank and having to see/clean up the aftermath

One guy had been a combat medic so he had a deep well of standard stuffing-guts-back-in vignettes he’d rattle off in the cig pit

One navy guy had gotten gangraped repeatedly over the course of weeks as punishment by fellow sailors for allegedly (though he maintained it was BS) “snitching” about something, I can’t remember what it was

Some funny stories too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49207532)

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=2...id#49200097)

name them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206751)

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=2...id#49202281)

they aren't living in an action movie

and if they are, they can reenlist

how many active duty at any given time? how many actually in combat during their enlistment?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206753)

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=2...id#49200147)

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=2...id#49202638)

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=2...id#49202656)

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=2...id#49202777)

For guys in the first camp, it's exactly the process that Sniggle outlines above -- after smoking towelheads with machine guns and explosives, it's very hard to go back to normal life and feel especially satisfied. Furthermore, many of the guys who are the best at this, or derived the most meaning from it, struggle in the civilian world. Without external structure and pressure, they are bad at self-motivating, and they don't see good ways to do exciting things and pay the bills. The last 10 minutes of The Hurt Locker are great at showing this. Additionally, upon leaving the military, a lot of their support structure and friend group evaporates -- even if you're still tight with your boys, they're in different cities, and like a third of the time they're out of the country. Very easy for guys to be atomized and isolated.

The second camp of guys are extremely disillusioned with the institution and the country. Like the first group, they are motivated by excitement and struggle and hardship, and like the first group they struggle to find it in the civilian world. However, they also didn't really get it in the military either and they are incredibly disillusioned with that. I know Green Berets that have never gone on target because ROE have been so restrictive the past 10 years. A lot of guys that get out from this group struggle with a ton of ennui and finding ways to find meaning.

In my experience, the guys that kill themselves are not the ones that are highly invested in politics. The ones invested in politics have found something about which to be angry, and in which to find meaning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206012)

Hypervigilance was a big one. From the moment I turned in my rifle, I felt unsafe. Whenever I walked around at night, I anticipated that someone was going to jump out of the bushes and attack me. I could no longer stay in certain places and get a good night's sleep. I was paranoid that someone might break in. I felt safest in cheap motel rooms, because there was only one door and I could deadbolt it.

At the same time, I felt incredible joy, really ecstasy, to have survived. Sometimes it felt like nothing else mattered and I would never have another problem in my life after what I had overcome. Sometimes it was like floating in a swimming pool of bliss.

But that led to thoughts of what I had missed while I was gone, and everything that I wanted to do with the gift of life that I had been given. Which sometimes turned to ambition and even megalomania, sometimes depression over how far I had to go.

It was like nothing else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206530)

The VA does go to great lengths to provide mental health support to veterans -- the quality of the health care services it offers is consistently rated as one of the best if not the best in the country. They have social workers who'll drive over an hour just to see a veteran who's unwilling and/or unable to visit a VA facility. But it's clearly not enough and doesn't address all factors behind the high suicide rate, which as a whole are a broader social problem and not just a mental health problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206534)

your premise is that all you need to know about the military can be learned by watching born on the 4th of july

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5764501&forum_id=2...id#49206791)