Time to Bring the Troops Home: More Veterans Committed Suicide Last Decade Than Died in Vietnam by Matt Agorist for The Free Thought Project It is no secret that the leading cause of death among active duty troops deployed to the Middle East is not combat or accidents, or IEDs — it’s themselves. The Pentagon’s own statistics show that this is a crisis but it is being ignored. In 2019, according to the Department of Defense, 17 service members were killed during hostile situations in Afghanistan. The number of soldiers who killed…
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