In gruesome detail, Luther described what happened to him at Camp Taji's aid station. He thought he would receive medical care. Instead he was confined to an isolation chamber and held there for over a month, under enforced sleep deprivation, until he agreed to sign papers saying that he was ill before coming to Iraq and thus not eligible for disability and medical benefits. "They wanted me to say I had a 'personality disorder,'" Luther told me.
After a month, Luther was willing to sign anything — and did. Soon after he signed his name to a personality disorder discharge, he was whisked back to Fort Hood and informed about a PD discharge's disastrous consequences. No disability pay, no long-term medical care, and because he didn't serve out his contract, he'd have to pay back a portion of his signing bonus. "They told me I now owed the Army $1,500."
I'd say I'm surprised or disgusted but honestly I'm anything but. It's the military (industrial complex), to put it bluntly, they make money by killing. It's not a bastion of compassion nor...
I'd say I'm surprised or disgusted but honestly I'm anything but. It's the military (industrial complex), to put it bluntly, they make money by killing. It's not a bastion of compassion nor kindness and is home to some of the most gruesome rationalizations that a human can fathom. After a lifetime of seeing how they treat their own (let alone others) nothing that collection of organizations does will ever catch me off guard.
I'm not some peace loving hippie type other. I understand the need for violence when dealing with violence but the degree of corruption (ethical and otherwise) that is, for lack of a better term, contained within the framework we identify as the military industrial complex is second to none. If it were feasible I'd say sack the lot and start fresh but I know full well that it's not logistically possible plus they'd just assassinate anyone who tried. We're held hostage by the machine itself.
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I'd say I'm surprised or disgusted but honestly I'm anything but. It's the military (industrial complex), to put it bluntly, they make money by killing. It's not a bastion of compassion nor kindness and is home to some of the most gruesome rationalizations that a human can fathom. After a lifetime of seeing how they treat their own (let alone others) nothing that collection of organizations does will ever catch me off guard.
I'm not some peace loving hippie type other. I understand the need for violence when dealing with violence but the degree of corruption (ethical and otherwise) that is, for lack of a better term, contained within the framework we identify as the military industrial complex is second to none. If it were feasible I'd say sack the lot and start fresh but I know full well that it's not logistically possible plus they'd just assassinate anyone who tried. We're held hostage by the machine itself.
Referenced in the piece but definitely worth reading is this by the author as well: https://joshuakors.com/part3.htm