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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 09:55 AM
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My friend's grandson forced back to Iraq with PTSD and suicide threats
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My friend's grandson Kevin was a starry-eyed 18 year old who signed up for the Marines straight out of HS after 911. By 2003 he was fully trained and was sent to Iraq for the first invasion, where he was in the forward wave all the way.
He's since done another stint there, coming back early this year, after being wounded in the leg, but always knew that come September, he was going to be shipped out again.
He was diagnosed with PTSD this year and was actually in the ER at Camp Pendelton after threatening to kill himself, and the Marines basically came to the ER, had him discharged and put him on the plane for Iraq.
The family is beside themselves, they told their congressman and senators, but got nowhere. All they were told is that he'll be evaluated over there again before being put in combat.

God, I hate this crap. I fucking hate G.W.Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, the whole fucking bunch of them.
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