Forum | Why Fort Campbell has the most Suicides in the Military, because we left them behind in the war!

This story is real and is all about facts that no one has ever brought public before, because of Nation Security and the truth about the United States Military, and their Medical system that is falling apart. The main reasons is our Leaders are failing to do their jobs, and the Military does not know how to reverse the problems and educate their Soldiers back to health, not so much that they don't no how, because they do and their not. The fear that bothers me the most is this may be the end of my Military Career, but I must tell my story about how I was left behind in the war! My story must be told to educate the world and our leaders of this great Country, we call ourself the United States of America, and you need to listen to me and read on. I do not want this to happen again, to nobody. I do not want to give the wrong impressions on how our fighting force is weak, but we are weak in the heart. I am laying my life on the line with the truth on how the United States Army is Broken. We all need to know about these problems, but we need to fix it as fast as we can. I will shade truth and light on the world about how America's Army is failing, and we need to fix it, but what I am about to tell you may be the end of our force and maybe the end of my life. We have to act now to save our Country, and our way of life.

The big question is why is our Soldiers being left behind and abused by their leadership, and why are we letting them push soldiers to the point of no return? Suicide is the major problem in our Military today, and that is a big sign of the force breaking down. It starts with our Leadership, because they are weak. We must help them now to be Strong again. We all are seeing the signs, and it's not a big secret anymore. The force is spread out all over hell, and the Soldiers are being deployed all the time. When the Soldiers get back they are broken down, again and again. We have broken Soldiers trying to help Broken Soldiers. Mental Health is the biggest problem in the Military as of today, May 23, 2010. And you better believe it, our Soldiers are being diagnosed with everything in the book at Adult Behavior Health. The worse problems we are having as Soldiers is the Doctors are being pushed by Military to not give out diagnosis that pay out big, so for PTSD they will call it anxiety. PTSD pays 50% disability out the door and anxiety pays 10% to 30%. The problem is Soldiers are not getting the right help and this is not an honest way to do business. The whole medical system is a joke, and is worse then the Civilian Hospital care, because we have rank. I have to say the Military does have some of the best cares in the world when we do give them credit for serving us, but the way they have it set up the Soldiers have the hardest time getting care. Do not forget our family members that are totally cut out of Medical Care. If you look at the Soldier at 100% care and look at his wife's care you would see she get 40%. I can not begin to tell you how messed up are care is for Children and dental. Hell fire, the Army pays 100% to fix the Soldiers teeth and 20% on their Children. The Soldiers has to pay at least 400 dollars to every dentist visit he takes his Child to. How fucked up is that? I think they should let my teeth fall out before they let my kids. The major problem we have facing Health Care is Mental Health. The Soldiers are domed when they go there. 

My name is SGT Franklin Delano Jeffries II, and this is my story. I am an American Soldier on Active Duty. I did not come back from the war mentally. My Soul was left over their in Iraq and Afghanistan in Dec 2007 through March 2009. The main problem I had is my Leadership did not know I did not come back from the war, because I did not deploy with my new leadership at Fort Campbell. I deployed with my Guys at Fort Huachuca, so when I got to Fort Campbell at the 101st Airborne I did not know these new Guys and they did not know me. If I had deployed with them then they would have known I did not come back from the last war, so they was not aware of how sick I really was. The problem is, I almost died from the pains of my life and war. And no one knows that but me in my heart, so I died inside my mind. I could not trust these new guys, because I did not lay in the same fox holes with them. And they did not lay in the same ones I laid in, so in the beginning we started off on the wrong side of the fence of each other. If these guys knew I did not come back from the war, then I might had a chance. The truth is I did not have no chance. I was left behind in that war by my leaders. I will never forgive them, because I will never forget. In my mind the only way I can start to forgive them is; If they start being honest with them selfs, to admit that they failed me, so we can move on and start training other leaders about how we need brothers, not rank. I am happy now that I have told the truth of what is going on in our Military right now. I am telling the truth for the first time, so if your reading this, then keep on, because you will not believe your eyes when I get through. This research, letter or book I am writing is going to be really long, but I promise you this, it is going to be my best work, like Elvis. I really almost gave up and killed myself. It was too hard on me. I could not deal with leaders that could not be my friend. It's always that jack ass that says to you, "This is not about friendship, and I am not your buddy either, its just all about business!" It's the Army for ya: Disrespect is confessed by leaders today. "That's all I got to say about that."

This is the main reason why Fort Campbell has the highest Suicide rates, because the Army is broken and Soldiers are not being looked at as brothers of arms anymore, and the NCOIC's (Leaders) are failing the NCO's (other Leaders) under them. Now the NCO is failing his or her Soldiers. The trickle down effect. In order to be a good leader you must under stand what a brother or sister means. Family is what I am talking about. You have to know how to understand and be honest with yourself and others. Once you understand that's what a brother is, then you can start being a great leader. You can lead from the front or rear, but you have to be honesty with yourself that your Soldiers are not just robots that you try to control and run them in to the ground. You have to see them in their heart by letting them know all your dark secrets and lies. In a since that is what a brother knows about his brothers.

Once you understand that, then you know that Soldiers has your back no mater what. You then understand what loyalty is by being the best friend and brother their is, and that is honor. The Army has forgotten about these wise rules of life, the first rule is understanding we are all human with emotions. And once you establish the bond you will not have to fear that you will be disrespected or left behind by your brothers. The next rule is understanding you look your brother (Soldier) in the eye and reassure him that you got his back, and he looks back and tells you that he has yours. You both find loyalty: You will now go to the end of the earth with your new brother you looked in the eye. Because we are fighting for the same thing, our family, the United States of America, and God. After that bond is set you have the same rank and understanding your brother, and that is in your heart. Once you understand that your rank don't mean shit, then you build your respect and establish the real meaning of duty. Your rank will not work until you gain your respect, and the only way to do that is being a good leader by following the examples of your Brothers in arms, let them lead you as well, and then they will follow you to the end of the earth, the battle, and to the death. 

Once you gain the respect of your brothers you can now be the best leader, because your Brothers in arms now. You can see their heart and now you can see mine. The final rule is that you should understand each other, and this is a good relationship, that is the only way to bring good order and discipline. If you follow my leadership skills that I have learned in the Army, then I will not fail you, and you will not fail them. We are being brothers the best way we know how now, so we can established respect and loyalty to each other, and that is how leadership works. We will pass this around in our Military, because we all know that this is the right way to go, so you can call this The New Established Official Order of how to be a Leader in the Military required by law, and if violated UCMJ actions will be administrated for training the Soldiers back to the basics of Brotherhood. We must give them every reasonable chance to recover and get them back on track, so they can get back to the fight and be apart of the team again. We must remember that no one will be left behind, and every chance should be giving to our brothers in arms, so we must not fail them. All brothers deserve a fair trial when all else fails, and that is what it means to be a Great Leader in the United States Military.

 You can not fail your Soldiers this way. The best Leaders are the ones who treat you as their best friend, they encourage you to be the best you can, and teach you how to lead from the front like I have explained on how to be a brother. Once they know this they can teach NCODP Classes on brotherhood, and what is really mean to have each others back no matter what you do or say as long as you are honest and realize we are all human and that mistakes is how we learn to be a leader. I have to accept I have failed my Soldiers, because my Leaders failed me, and the NCOIC's (Leaders) have to accept they have failed their NCO's, and now the NCO's will fail their Soldiers like they did me. All because the Army is not teaching the basics of being a brother and sister to each other. We have let leaders place rank in the way, and that is not how the NCO's club needs to be anymore. We need to take rank out of the way and replace it with loyalty, duty and respect. You must understand this as a Leader that you have to take your rank out of it and remember that when you do what I am saying with your brothers and sister of arms and that is love, then you will get your respect with your rank. You brother will know who is their teacher and leader once you understand that they need to win your respect first, so you might have to be humble first to do that, and that maybe just God is good if you listen to him. Remember we are all fighting for the same Army Values and one must understand brotherly love in order to lead our Great Country called America. If we can get back to the basics of teaching the Army by regrouping and stepping back to look at the big picture that are Army is Broken, and we need to regroup and retrain our ways in the Non Commissioned Officer's outlook on life, and that is how we need to start training our Soldiers again on what it means to be a brother in arms. We have to start this training now, or we will keep losing Soldiers, my brothers should be yours too. I want to put a stop to this madness we are allowing in our Military, and Country. We must start being brothers now to stop the suicide death rate's across the entire Military branches. I must say they need to start at Fort Campbell now before it is too late. That is why I had to tell my Story to the World. I know that I am Active Duty and will sacrifice my job for the truth about what is going on in our Military, and why your sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers and Children are Killing their self. The fact is the Military is not doing anything about it and they are not seeing how to fix the problems. I have told the truth on how it must happen, and how it needs to get started above with brotherly love. If we do not force and require the Military to change how our Leaders (Non Commissioned Officers) are treating their Chain of Command and Soldiers we will fail to be the greatest Army on earth. We will fail, and the first step is to admit we are the Army, and we are Broken right now, and we need to get back to Army Strong, so help us do that. Pass this along. Make me a General in the Army, and I will show you the Devil. I know that I could turn our Leadership around, by my Doctrine. Brotherhood is the best way! I know that love builds the strongest relationships, so why not make me the General brother.

At all cost we must give our brothers a chance to start being honest again, so they can see their wrongs just as much as their brothers can see theirs. America can stay strong and the only way we can do that is start firing leaders, but first we must give them a chance to start leaning how to be a leader again. The only way we can make this work is start educating our force on why it is so important to never leave a Fallen Soldier Behind, and how a brother would have your back no matter what. If you know how to help another person, then you will know how to help a Soldier. My soul did not come back from War. And the only way you can help that Soldier come back from War, is win over his or her heart, and they will give you their life, because that is what brothers do for each other. All the Army values will fall in place, and that is being a brother. The truth is you do not have to know the Army Values to understand honer, duty and respect. Once you start practicing my ways, and teaching leadership, then you will automatically understand what true Army Values are all about. And that would be your Soldiers, Country, family, force, relationships and brothers that you will go to the end of the earth with, because you know that they do have your back, and you have theirs.

The leader you do not want in your army today, starts here. You know they have been a slave before, because they start abusing you with their rank. You are going to do it my way and when I tell you. If I say jump, then you say how high. I am the boss and you shout the fuck up and listen to me. You are not my friend and I do not think you have a brain to understand how to be a leader. You are a shit head! Come here and start doing push ups. A good leader can teach discipline and good order. Stand at attention. Your a peace of shit. I got it now, you think your better then me. If you can say Nigger then I can say it too. In my mind that is how it should be. We are all brothers, black and white. So, do not say nigger if others can't say it too. You are not worth the shit you walk on. Now, that is how bad you can get and go down as a leader. You can think positive and negative, good or bad. Today, our leaders are like that, and we are letting them get away with this abuse that is destroying our Soldiers. Who cares about your rights. Soldiers do not have any rights. I own you and you will do what I say. You step up to the plate too, when you think you can be a leader.

The only requirement is to be totally honest. The truth is the Military needs to start being brothers to others no matter the rank. You have to gain the respect by being a loyal friend. If not, then get out of the military, because you are wrong, and I do not want you living next door to me anymore. It's all about business to me too, so be my friend or get out of my family. Your rank don't mean shit when you can't win over the hearts of your own Soldiers. You are my friend or you are not? Help stop the war we have going on in the Military, by being a good leader. We need more brothers thinking like me to win this war. Now you know why and how we are breaking the Military down? Yes, that is because our leaders are failing us. Failing Soldiers has caused enough suicide, so we must regroup and rebuild the war on suicide. And that starts with Military leadership!