Fort Bragg killings raise alarm about stress
get this:
“No connection established to assailants’ Afghanistan duty”
No connection? Having been at Ft. Bragg twice, having seen the dynamic in play here many, many times. I can tell you what the single connection is. Infidelity. These women can’t stay out of the clubs and out of the arms of other men while these poor saps are breathing sand and freezing their asses off.
But since the slayings and suicides, some families are reaching out for help. Yvonne Qualantone, president of the 3rd Special Forces Group’s Family Readiness Group, said her phone has been ringing a lot since the killings. The organization is a support group for families in the unit.
“I’m getting a lot of phone calls, and we’re trying to make sure everyone is getting the right information,” she said.
She said stress levels are a little higher than normal. Since the killings, she said, some women who have been having problems with their husbands have called wanting to know to whom they should talk before things get worse.
Yeah, I’m sure they are afraid for their lives, because soon their husbands are coming back home and they will find out how these women have been whiling away their time.
When I was in the area of Ft. Bragg and Ft. Benning, I was told by one Army chaplain that the rate of infidelity among married women is upward of 65%. That was in the 80’s when nothing was going on. For the married men, I was told that it was less than 11%, which is below the national average. Don’t think for a minute that men aren’t partying… they are but, most of them are 19 and single.
The married guys are all hanging out together living in a dream world of hopefulness for their return. Most of them (from experience) actually form “support groups” (read drinking groups) of faithful husbands. You learn quickly not to hang around with the guys that are getting laid.
While every human being is subject to moments of weakness and death does not fit the crimes, for some of these women, death is too good in my opinion. Don’t go along with that… think about their contribution to this holy war. In my opinion, it’s the equivalent of sabotage. Damage military property intentionally and you will find yourself in deep trouble, what is different here. Each and every man serving his country is not only a component of a system of war but, they are also government property during the extent of their enlistment or commission.