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Hello, everybody. Welcome to my underground
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studio. I'm trucker mouth and this is
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the road, the day on the road. We're going to discuss, at least
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I remember my headset today. We're going to discuss mental
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health in the military. OK, mental health in the
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military. But how's everybody?
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Thanks for everybody for tuning in.
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How's everybody doing today? I'm doing all right, and I had a
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visit with the dermatologist and they did a biopsy on my leg here
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to see what this is and. And what's this?
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Oh, wait, remove the destination from extreme cancel.
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Come on. No, there we go.
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I'm sorry. Something popped up here and I
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tried to remove it and it was going to shut me off anyway.
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Yeah, so I got the bottom through my leg and it was a hard
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to change the the bandage on it. But mental health, mental health
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in the military, we're going to mental health here.
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Mental health in the military is the topic today.
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And you know, a lot of people suffer from mental health.
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I know I do. I have things buried that once
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they come out it it, it disrupts me for days and days until until
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I bury it again. I need to get this camera, like
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150 zoom or something. Anyway, I was messing around
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with this. I don't know.
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I'll get it done, but it looks like you can see me.
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OK. I'm welded up.
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And anyway, yeah, so, you know, I have things buried.
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And what's the surface messed up for?
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I messed up for a while. And something just surfaced here
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that was very traumatic to me when I was 10 years old and I
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just can't shake it. It's just a little better now.
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It's been going on like a week now.
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So you know, PTSDI know I have it.
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I know I have PTSDI. Don't care what the, the, the VA
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says. I don't know if I had it for, I
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don't think I had it from that. I'm not sure if I have it from
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that, that incident I had when I was in Army reserves or not.
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But you know, the, the, the nightmares and all that.
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And yeah, I know I got PTSD. So, you know, a lot of people
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are, are stressed with mental health, like Drew Carey.
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Drew Carey on The Price is Right, He's always saying take
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care of mental health. You wouldn't think someone like
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that would have any problems. But see, mental health, there's
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no boundaries. It's like, it's like drugs and
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no, no boundaries. You could be the richest person
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in the world. You still have mental health
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problems and it effects a lot of people.
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I know it affects me. So here we go.
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Let's get that. Let's get going here.
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So mental health in the military always has been a big concern
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for that fact every not just military, but everywhere.
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You know, you've got good mental health, you're happy, you know
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it's the happy person and you know mental health is OK.
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I don't want to say that mental health in the military is a big
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is as big a fact is physical fitness.
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You know your mental health and you know, 1 soldier here.
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He used to be on MBR radio here. He sent out, you know, overseas
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and all he has PTSD and I said, well, I would have no problem
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shooting people that that were trying to kill me.
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And he said, OK, you say that. But looking back, I believe you
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might be right. You might be right on that.
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So let's just get going here, man.
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So, so according to statistics, by statistics by Department of
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Defence, 450 to 550, active duty reserve, National Guard, active
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duty reserve under guard, die by suicide each year.
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You know, that's 450, five, 150 of them.
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And you know, my aunt once told me, my Aunt Deb, God bless her
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soul, she told me that, you know, you don't want to ever do
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nothing like that 'cause you're going to die in natural causes
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soon enough. And I just turned 60 years old.
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And she's right. You're going to die soon enough
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of natural causes. You don't need to do anything
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like that. So the USS Abraham Lincoln, we
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all heard the USS Abraham Lincoln on.
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It's on it's Middle East war crews there, 88 sailors
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attempted to jump overboard in the battle group. 1 dead but was
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rescued on their long deployment in Middle East despite having
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several psychological and psychiatric workers available.
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Now, you know, there's a lot of people on a carrier, especially
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when they're out at sea and you know, all about all the air
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groups and all are on air to their squadrons and all.
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I'm sure there's a waiting list. And it's just a lot people just
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don't want to go that route. They just want to, you know, try
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to try to walk things off. That's like me.
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I did talk to, to psychiatric workers in, in, in the VA, you
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know, and it helped. And like I said, something
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surfaced man. And, and, and I had a really,
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really traumatic thing happened when I was 10 and I try not to
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remember it and it was bad. It was really, really bad.
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And I thought I was going to be killed, but my dad saved me.
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That saved my life against me. So Fort Hood, TX, OK, we're
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going to Army now has a high, has a high suicide rate.
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Fort Hood has the second highest suicide rate in the Army, has
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the second highest number of attempted suicides by by large
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margin over the posts that had third and fourth highest suicide
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ratings. The the bases in the army that
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had the most suicide attempts. Actually the most suicide
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attempts in the in the hall of the military was Fort
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Wainwright, AK and Joint Base Eldmore Richardson in Anchorage
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had the highest per capita suicide rates in all the
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military in all the military. So the most really stuck up
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there. I mean, I know it's cold, but
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damn, you ain't got to kill yourself.
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God bless them people. I mean, man, how large margin.
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So Yep. So I do have some stories about
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Fort Hood, but the Fort Hood was originally named Fort Hood
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originally officially renamed the Fort Cavazos because their
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general Hood was a he was a Confederate general in the army.
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The, the, the, the Southern army, the Confederate, he was
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the Confederate general. So they renamed it.
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What's that going to do? The Fort Cavasis has a has faced
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long standing crisis regarding soldiers, suicides, violent
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crime and systematic leadership failures.
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You got to realize that Fort Hood's one of the biggest
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installations, the military installations in the world.
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So there's a lot of people on that base.
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I did have statistics how many peoples on there, but maybe it's
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in my notes here and they have tank brigades there and they and
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they said it's 340 square miles. They go up in the mountains and
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they boat, you know, they they practice with these tanks and
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it's humongous 340 square miles grace the money.
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That's that's probably an eighth the size of Pennsylvania.
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So yeah, Fort Hood over the span of two decades of sprawling
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military installation in Central Texas, has repeatedly broken
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records for active duty suicides promptly federal investigations,
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independent culture reviews, and top level military
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restructuring. Fort Hood, the base has
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experienced, I'm still calling it Fort Hood.
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Fuck what anyone says experienced multiple distinct
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waves of high suicide rates, often linked to psychological
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strains of multiple combat deployments during the global
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war on Terrorism and underlying structural issues on the base.
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There's some problems down there.
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Like I said, it's a huge it's a city.
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It's a city. I mean, it's 2010 records spike
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in 2010, the installation recorded a record high 22
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confirmed or suspected suicides, doubling the count for 2009.
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During one notorious week of September 2001, four decorated
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combat veterans decorated combat veterans died by suicide,
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driving the base of suicide rate roughly to four times the
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national civilian average. These days were obviously, you
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know, stressing for PTSD and man, they they like I said, I
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told this one, I told that one soldier, I said he was a, he was
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a, he was a podcaster. I said, you know what I'd have
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like I said I'd have no problem, you know, shooting people that
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and killing people that are trying to kill me.
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But it it, it, it you'll think about it.
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That's I, I'm eating my words there.
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Looking back at the things that homemade that are, that are my
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mental health. I believe he's right.
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So mid 2000 tens. Following a brief decline to six
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suicides in 2013, the number of the number surged back to 17
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deaths at Fort Hood in 2014 and remain consistent in double
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digits for consecutive years. Something about these tank
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brigades, man, they're really stressful on people.
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And I think they have, they have a lot of real, real training
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down there. And people returning from the
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war and stuff go down or back to the base and their home base.
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And wow, 2020 crisis 2020, at least 11 soldiers died by
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suicide as part of a larger wave of 31 total non bad deaths at
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the base, which included five homicides.
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So in 2020, eleven soldiers total 31 non combat deaths at
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the base. Like I said, man, you're going
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to die. You're going to die of magic
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college soon enough. I just turned 16.
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I'm seeing it ranking commanders in foothold December 2020 for
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systematic leadership failures. So in May 2023, the base was
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officially renamed for Cavazos. Cavazos.
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Despite name changes and and reorganized prevention
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protocols, the installation continued to navigate severe
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mental health challenges. For instance, in August 2023,
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the Army confirmed three soldiers suicide within a two
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week window. From August 2023, three soldiers
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suicides in a two week window during call to action Stand down
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days with a news like the first Calvary division to re educate
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service members mental health interventions at 24/7 crisis
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resources. If you're in the military and
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you feel like you're going to commit suicide or hurt yourself
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or someone else, dial 988. Dial 988, man, and, and, and,
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and, and help yourself. There's people there that try to
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help you. Dial 988 if you're active duty
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or guard and the veteran. And then if you're the veteran,
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dial 988 plus one or text 838255 to connect with the confidential
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specialized support available 24/7.
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So there's resources out there, man.
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Reach out. Don't hurt yourself or somebody
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else. And you know, everybody knows.
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Everybody knows about the mass shooting air and the mass
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shooting in the Fort Hood down there.
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That asshole, Major Nadal Hassan, 39, entered A readiness
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processing center on post and opened fire using a handgun
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fitted with a laser sight. When unarmed soldiers and
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civilians preparing for deployment.
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These people were preparing for deployment to go defend our
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country. And this asshole who's a major
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who that's OO4O5, an army he had to have years in, probably,
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probably 10. And he was talking though he was
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talking to Al Qaeda, he said, had his head examined.
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Fucking asshole. Assad, then an Army
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psychiatrist, was tuned and deployed Afghanistan.
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He was talking to him. He's one of four death row
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inmates at the military justice justice system awaiting
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execution at Fort Leonard Ward. Everybody knows about Fort
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Leonard Ward. Fort Leonard Ward, Kansas.
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He's in there and he was shot by a civilian.
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He was in that process and said they don't have guns there.
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People were getting processed guns in our country.
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He'd come in there and killed 13 people they could wounded.
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I have his papers mixed up. So he killed 13.
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Yeah, 13 counts, 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32
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counts of attempted murder. How did the guy during the
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Afghanistan wars named Nadal Hassan get get in our military?
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They didn't look at his background doing nothing,
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obviously. Hassan's shootings free sparked
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a conversation about the difference between attacks
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sponsored by terror organizations and those that are
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simply inspired by such groups, a distinction underscored
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roughly five years later as ISIS inspired to tax rose and
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frequency. I don't know.
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Vice President Mike Pence visited Fort Hood October 29th
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and visited memorial to those killed in the shooting.
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Mike Pence, the Vice president at the time, said.
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When I visited Fort Hood, he went memorial, he said.
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I walked by the comms dedicated to each individual, to the 13
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men and women who fell that day, and I was deeply moved, moved by
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the tributes to all those who were lost, like staff's Army Amy
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Krueger, who was preparing for a tour tour of duty in Afghanistan
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before that fatal day. Our specialist Jason Dean Hunt,
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who had just gotten married must before.
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Or Private First Class Francesca Velez, who had just returned
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from a tour of duty in Iraq and was and was expecting her first
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child. And that asshole took her life
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truck her mouth don't like it. He put the hammer down that
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asshole. I'll throw the switch on that
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cock sucker. I'm going to read the names off.
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I'm going to take a break here. When I come back, I'm going to
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read the names off of the people killed that shooting by that
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asshole at Fort Hood. OK.
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When I come back, what we got here, the screen.
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This is real small over here, man.
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I don't know. I'm going to come back.
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I guess that's going on. Yeah, it's.
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So anyway, on November, back to the shooting of Fort Hood on
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November 5th. It'll be 17 years ago that this
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happened. And read off a couple of names
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and. And.
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And did a Privy to them. What happened here?
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What? I turned the speaker on it's so
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I must. Yeah, fuck it there.
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All right. So I'm going to read the names
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off these people because they deserve it.
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All right. Check.
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OK, here we go. Those killed the attack on
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November 5th 2009 or 2000. And 517 years ago.
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Yeah. 2005, November 5th, 2009. Here are the this now I'm all
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blue. Oh my God.
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Here we go. Michael.
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Michael Grant Cahill, 62, civilian physician assistant.
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Lombardo, Eduardo Coravero, 52. Major Justin Michael Decrow, 32.
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Staff Sergeant. So someone's doing
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intentionally. Stop doing it.
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John P Gaffney, 56. Captain.
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What's going on here? All right, so Frederick Green,
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29, Specialist Jason Dean Hunt, 22, Specialist Army Sue Kruger,
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29, Sergeant Aaron Thompson, the Malka 19 Private First Class.
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If I got these names a little mixed up, I'm sorry.
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What is wrong on my screen? Well, here I'm now full screen
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guy God. Michael S Pearson, 22 PF Private
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first class. I'm really sorry, but I'm not.
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Somebody's doing this somehow or something.
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Russell Gilbert, Siege Sager, 51, Captain.
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I'm just going to go ahead. Francesca Bella is 21, Private
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first Class. Juniata L Warman, 55, Lieutenant
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Colonel, and KMC Zong, 23, private first Class.
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The victims were awarded to Purple Heart.
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OK, they're ready to go to after an intervention by Congress.
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They're awarded to Purple Heart. They're in the military going.
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We're going to go over and defend our country in
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Afghanistan. And that asshole shot them down
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and killed them. A major in the army legislators
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added an amendment to 2015 defence spending bill that
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extended Purple Heart eligibility to attacks in which
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an individual was in communication with the foreign
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terrorist organization before the attack and was inspired and
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motivated by a terror group. And this asshole was this saying
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was known to be a communication with the Yemeni American M1
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Anwar al Wiki and NFS al al Qaeda propagandist, an infamous
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al Qaeda propagandist. Prior to carrying out his
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attack, Milwaukee never gave us on any specific directions, he
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said. But the Army major's
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radicalization likely to get earlier than his emails with the
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cleric, according 2018 to a 2018 review of Assan's case by George
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Washington University. Well, that ain't so hard, man.
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Death ain't good. Oh, yeah.
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Chop him freak up. You know, I got some stories
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here. He was convicted.
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He he, he, he convicted to death.
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He sentenced him to death. This assigned that killed that
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people in the army. He sentenced him to death.
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OK. A civilian police Sergeant Mark
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Todd, shot and wounded the son, ending his rampage and and he
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paralyzed the son from the waist down.
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Now, that ain't good enough for an asshole either, right?
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Yeah. Vice President Mike Pence on
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October 29th of the year was when I arrived last night.
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I stopped, paid my respects. I walked by the columns.
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Obviously there's columns down there in Fort Hood where all the
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people's names go on to to die. At least one anyway.
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Each individual one to the 13 minute when we fell that day.
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Now I was deeply moved, moved by the tributes to all those who
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were lost. That's just freaking terrible.
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You think you're safe on a military base?
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You're not. NASA will look at his sign.
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And while we're putting him to death, he's done.
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We're going to do to him. We're going to do to him.
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Glad you asshole. I'll do that myself, you
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bastard. There was I got some stories
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here of. OK, here we go.
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Here's some statistics from the Department of Defense.
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Do they just complete data? Data from the party defense for
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2000. Back 2024, the Pentagon reported
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15115 documented suicide attempts among active duty
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components. You got the Army at 4:36, you
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got the Space Force at 10 suicide attempts, Marine Corps
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at 268, the Navy at 356, and the Air Force.
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The Air Force had 445. The Air Force is considerably
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lowered, considerably less than the Army, less, less service
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members and Army considerably less than anybody.
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They're smaller than the they're smaller.
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They're not. They're not in the Army.
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It's the Army. Navy.
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I guess the Air Force is much bigger than the core, but they
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have more suicide attempts per capita than than than the Army
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does. And that's, you know, there's
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something wrong. You think the Air Force,
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everybody got it made and really not Air Force had more
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documented attempted attempts 445 ahead of the Army, even
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though the Army were considerably larger.
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So there's something up with with the Air Force, man.
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Like I said, like I said, my aunt told me you're going to
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die. You're going to die and have to
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call it soon enough. And I'm seeing it now.
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I just turned 60. Don't do it.
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We can remember if you're active duty.
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If you're active duty, you know, call 988.
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If you're if you're a veteran, you know, call 988 plus one and
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you get yourself some help. I'm trucker mouth.
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I'll see you next time when you're back along the road with
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trucker mouth. You'll have a good day.
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Be safe, take care of your mental health.
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