guess we are very nasty
and lake ontario is now "lake of merica"
Confirmed. The Navy is charging the sailor who tried to jump from the USS Abraham Lincoln to end his life.
The service member is accused of “malingering” and being AWOL, and could see his pay docked in half through non judicial punishment.
He jumped on August 3rd. His wife says she wasn’t told for four days. He spent five days at Naval Medical Center San Diego getting care.
Now, instead of support, he’s getting a court date with his commanding officer.
Military rules say genuine suicide attempts should not be charged. Commanders can still choose to press ahead anyway, and in this case, one did.
And that is the part I cannot get past. A sailor reaches such a desperate point that he tries to end his own life, survives, receives psychiatric care, and then returns to a system that responds with punishment. If we want service members to ask for help before they reach the edge, treating a mental health crisis like misconduct sends exactly the wrong message.
This is happening after months of reports about sailors on the Lincoln in crisis during a deployment stretching past 260 days at sea. At some point, we have to stop treating these incidents like isolated failures of individual sailors and start asking what prolonged deployments, exhaustion, isolation, and relentless operational demands are doing to the people we ask to carry them.
We tell our service members to speak up when they are struggling. We tell them seeking help is strength, not weakness. Those words mean absolutely nothing if surviving a suicide attempt can leave you facing punishment afterward.
Supporting the troops cannot just be a slogan when they are strong enough to fight. It has to mean supporting them when they are struggling to survive, too.
If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. (Before donald trump cuts the suicide and crisis lines too) so he can afford more steaks
BREAKING
Marco Rubio personally signed off on stripping a cartel witness of his protection from torture, and eleven days later ICE put him on a plane to Mexico.
Marco Rubio personally signed off on stripping a cartel witness of his protection from torture, and eleven days later ICE put him on a plane to Mexico.The man, a Mexican national in his late 40s identified in court papers only as John Doe, lived in Maryland and showed up for every ICE check-in he was given. In January, ICE detained him at one of those check-ins and shipped him to a detention center in Louisiana. Last month, with no notice and with a habeas case still pending, he was flown to Guatemala.
Guatemala refused him, because he isn't Guatemalan, and handed him to the Mexican consulate. A Mexican consular official learned he had protection from deportation to Mexico and declined to take him. He was back in the U.S. the same day.
Days later ICE flew him straight to Mexico. Mexico refused a second time.
On July 21 he was served notice that his protection under the Convention Against Torture had been terminated. The notice was in English. He speaks Spanish.
It said the State Department had received assurances from the Mexican government that he would not be tortured, and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and acting ICE Director David Venturella had consulted and decided those assurances were reliable. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who is handling the case, noted in a footnote that this kind of termination requires a Cabinet member and is extremely rare, and that no one explained why the two men involved themselves in this one case.
On August 1 he was deported to Mexico without his phone or his belongings. "He has been in hiding since that date," Gallagher wrote, "fearing that the cartels that he provided information against will find him and torture or kill him before he can return to the United States."