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PTSD Psychotic Soldier Kills Afghan Civilians: SEQUEL

PTSD is mental illness. Mental illness may be psychosis.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The unfortunate act of Sgt Bales in Afghanistan is horrible in the extreme but it was not only expected but preventable. Infantry Sgt Bales is/was a gung ho soldier by any measure. I was an infantry Private under the likes of Sgt Bales and know a real soldier when I see or hear about one.

He did three tours in Iraq performing excellently and getting head wounds and part of his foot shot off. After all that, getting sent back into a hot combat zone was totally irresponsible.

Dioxin on the Carriers

A Report on the Contamination of Aircraft Carriers off the Coast of Vietnam.

(WASHINGTON DC) - DIOXIN ON THE CARRIERS is a well-researched refutation of the statements by the VA that there was no dioxin on board the aircraft carriers that served offshore Vietnam between 1962 and 1975.

This paper presents clear indication that the deck crews, and most probably the entire crews, of the carriers were exposed to dioxin that flew in on the jets returning from missions over South Vietnam.

Combat Private, The Most Important Man in Battle

Combat Infantry Badge: The shield and spear for all behind him.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Most readers won’t believe this but the bemedaled colonels and generals far behind the front lines have virtually no concept of what it’s like to live, sleep and survive in the mud or a muddy foxhole with little sleep.

It's usually accompanied by little food or water, and virtually none of the small mercies of normal life.

Radiation Risk to El Toro Marine Veterans

Marines may have unknowingly been exposed to radiation in Hangar 296 at closed California base.

(IRVINE, CA) - The former Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro, California is an EPA Superfund, closed by the Marine Corps in 1999 and most of the former base sold at a public auction in 2005.

There may have been as many as 300 Marines and more unknowingly exposed to radiation from 1969 to 1999 in the Wing Supply Support Division attached to MWSG-37, MCAS El Toro.

Human Rights is a Foreign Concept in the UN`s `War on Drugs`

Latin American Presidents’ Calls for Legalization Debate Go Unheeded at UN Drug Policy Meeting in Vienna.

(VIENNA) - Several Latin American presidents called for an outright debate on drug legalization this week in the United Nations.

Delegates at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting this week failed to even discuss a change in the global prohibitionist drug treaties.

Tyndall Air Force Base - EPA Superfund Site

The Department of Defense has established a target date of 2014 to have all cleanup actions in place at at all Federal Facility Superfund sites.

(TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.) - Tyndall Air Force Base (Tyndall) is located approximately one mile southeast of Panama City, Bay County, Florida.

The Elimination of the U.S. Marines

With two major air bases on the west coast already closed, new substantial cuts to the Marine Corps look like the beginning of the end.

(SALEM) - In an increasing age of mercenary warfare, many will find massive reductions in the U.S. Marine Corps more than alarming.

Those of us who write about this legendary military organization have seen the writing on the wall for some time. The reasons are not perfectly clear, but I suspect we have a decent fix on what is taking place.

PTSD: the Trillion Dollar Time Bomb
Cannabis is the Best Therapy

In the meantime Military and veteran suicides are reaching an alarming level.

(MOLALLA, OR) - The Oregonian newspaper, March 10, 2012, Broken Bodies, Broken Souls, which aptly exposes the monstrous medical dilemma about maybe 1,000,000 military PTSD victims.

Probably about one half will be declared unemployable because of what military battle service has done to their minds. PTSD and/or TBI literally destroyed their minds!

Latest Afghanistan Massacre will be Remembered as Tipping Point in the War

Press statement by Richard Becker, Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today’s cold-blooded murder of at least 16 Afghani civilians by a U.S. Army soldier is the latest in a decade-long history of atrocities carried out by the NATO occupiers.

It will be remembered as the tipping point in a criminal war that grows more criminal with each passing month.

World War II Veteran Receives French Legion of Honor

The French Consulate's speech embodied the heart felt appreciation of the French people.

(LOPEZ ISLAND, Wash.) - Roy Moore fought the Germans throughout France in an effort to liberate them from the grasp of the Nazis.

About 200 friends, family members and guests recently gathered to watch as now retired Col. Roy Moore Jr. was awarded a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, for his actions in France during World War II.