Aaron Bushnell: Friends struggle to comprehend US airman's Gaza protest death

I am passionate about some of my beliefs, but never passionate to take my own life. Most martyrs are often forgotten.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Mr. Bushnell live-streamed his self-immolation...ensuring that his actions... which he described as an "extreme act of protest" ... were seen far beyond Washington...

Interesting how some Active Duty and Veteran personnel have this haughtiness as if PTSD - Waits to kick-in only once someone is ETS’ing/RETIRED or files for a VA Claim.

PTSD - While serving
2002

1.) Blood on the Home Front
A series of murders by Afghan war vets raises the question: Is this post-traumatic stress from the war?

“Army husbands who returned from the war in Afghanistan not long ago, confound any quick explanation. In all, four soldiers at the same base, Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, N.C., are accused of killing their wives during the past seven weeks.

The odd clustering of the murders, along with the recent Afghanistan service of three of the suspects, has some people wondering if there's a common thread--perhaps even the first signs of post-traumatic stress in this war.”

SOURCE : https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1002975,00.html


2.) [What medals and patriotic speeches don't tell- crisis in soldiers back home]
2014

SOURCE : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24772813/


3.) Deployment stressors of the Iraq War: insights from the mainstream media
2009 Feb.

SOURCE : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18467690/