[richlevy]

Well, I found articles about suicides during deployment, but nothing about self-inflicted wounds before deployment.

Here is an interesting article on PTSD from 'Iraqi Freedom'.

Bottom line, the next POTUS will have to either budget for a lot of PTSD support or quietly screw over another generation of veterans.

You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ’is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool—you bet that Tommy sees!