Preventing Military Misconduct Stress Behaviors
Source: Huffington Post
Published: Friday 27 January, 2012
January 2012 ushered in a new year, but an old, recurring problem for war veterans. According to a January 2012, CareerCast.com article, "The 10 Most Stressful Jobs in 2012," the No. 1 stressful vocation in the U.S. is an "enlisted soldier."
Here are just some of news headlines at the mid-month mark alone that appear to lend credence to the selection:
- An Iraq War veteran is arrested for the brutal murder of five homeless men after his friend's death in Afghanistan. His family said he had become a "troubled man" since returning from Iraq.
- A video is released showing U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.
- A picture is published of U.S. Air Force personnel charged with handling American remains pretending to be dead in an open casket with a noose around an airman's neck, with the words "Sucks 2 Be U."
- A 19-year-old Army private dies from a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" in Afghanistan, after unrelenting physical, racial and emotional torment from his fellow soldiers.
- Video is released of U.S. Army soldiers joyfully slaughtering an Afghanistan boy's sheep.
- An Iraqi war veteran kills a Washington State Park Ranger, then dies from exposure
- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reported a "stain" on the military with 3,191 sexual assaults occurring last year, but he said that because so few victims report the crime, the real number is closer to 19,000 assaults.
What do the above incidents share in common besides making the January headlines and involving enlisted military members during a time of war? They exemplify what the American military calls "misconduct stress behaviors," present during every armed conflict, including by officers, as evident in the My Lai massacre.
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