CNN reported last week [1] that the US military has been ignoring its own rules concerning the deployment of soldiers known to be mentally ill. Last year alone, the practice contributed to the suicide deaths of 22 US soldiers, which was a stunning 20% of all non-combat fatalities.
I wish someone would explain to me why the US military believes it makes sense to deploy mentally ill soldiers, all of whom have access to high-powered weapons, while, simultaneously, it instantly discharges any soldier discovered to be homosexual (especially since many discharged homosexuals served in critical, hard-to-replace jobs, such as cryptography and Arabic languange translation). I just don’t get it.
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