<<@JsckSzx says : stop sending australians to fight usa wars of aggression. solved>> <<@KIA-MIA-POW says : The plethora of bad experiences with DVA from veterans just grow and grow and can not ever be underestimated. Reason enough for a major retink in how this ministry functions. A good start would be to have a minimum of 50% former ADF staff. Staff with some empathy for their clients...>> <<@VK6AB- says : The ADF failures have accrued over more than two decades. The fact the Brereton Report exists clearly shows ADF leadership did not believe in and actively avoided chain of command responsibility and accountability as per the Yamashita principle. All officers know of this principle because they are taught it. This failure of command responsibility and accountability is widespread and reflects the long term poor performance of ADF leadership, in general the outcomes include defence and veteran suicide but are not limited to these areas.>> <<@mives02 says : I’m a Timor/Iraq veteran. I’ve been suffering with PTSD for 20 years. It manifested itself by chronic anxiety and insomnia. My arms are scarred and pitted from scratching and picking at my skin. I need medication daily to function and to sleep. So be it. Attitudes within the government needs to change as well. I got issued a gold card a few years back, I was amazed how much it doesn’t give me. DVA is a nightmare to deal with, combative, dismissive, accusatory. I enlisted because I wanted to serve our country. It was my honour to do so and I would do it all again BUT we just need to be listened to. Take heed from the men and women who walked the walk. They still remain the greatest resource the government has in the prevention of veteran suicide.>> <<@kidsoxoxox says : Most Modern ex servicemen (not Veterans) are as soft as butter. Vietnam, Afghanistan, similar to the Boer war wrt allied casualties, "afternoon maneuvers with live rounds". Nothing comes close to horror of WW1, WW2. Soft upbringings produce not very resilient soldiers, sailors and airmen. Did the Red Army and Wehrmacht have this amount of suicides per capita postwar? I met 1x of the latter, Otto, in the 1970s as a kid. He still had a visible bayonet wound on the way to Moscow and a shoulder bullet wound coming back. I talked at length with another friend of the family 'Blackie', RAAF Spitfire pilot who lost some mates in North Africa and over the channel, even shot Bedouin camel driver who killed his mate and shot a careless RAF mechanic who got another mate killed. Nearly got killed himself numerous times by torpedoes on troop ships, raids, air combat, friendly fire etc, etc. Another mate was shot down whilst raiding an Italian harbour, taken POW, handed over to German nurses for treatment who also took their turn with some horizontal folk dancing. Blackie Came home, discharged, worked as tree Looper, partied, fornicated, and made babies. My Dad shared a boarding house with an ex Australian WW2 Commando, Paddles' whose Jungle diet included Long Pork. Airdrops were not always reliable, so eat J a p. He also watched what the monkeys use to eat. He swapped dog tags with a dead digger and postwar drove dog taxis in his home city for years until his 'widow' spotted him. The Police caught him pretty quick at a boarding house. Soft generations since the war raised by mum, or if Dad present, his a emansculated City Simp. Military training can only do so much, it's your childhood that matters.>> <<@CharleneLacey-h1e says : As a veteran, we just keep waiting waiting waiting.... luckily we've played the waiting game a long time...>>
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