Tragic events to be sure, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. I know of several ongoing investigations filed by several people that were stationed and subsequently kicked out or punished for reporting violations and mistreatment. I have a friend who submitted several Fredom of Information Act and was rejected from obtaining the information he requested. The instances of abuse did not stop in 2006 but continued throughout 2008 and it's also a fact that good people were punished for trying to do the right thing and putting a stop to a mryiad of things from waste, fraud, and abuse, undue command influence, failing inspections, and safety violations. If you are going to report on just one terrible situation, you should also look into the ongoing investigations that take years to complete and that are still going on that have destroyed lives and families to protect the honor of a few terrible leaders. I know of a good Officer that was kicked out at 19 years because he reported all of the terrible things that were going on and the command punished him, ruined his name, and kicked him out without his pension while another Officer "played the game" and got a promotion and got to go to the post graduate college. I hope all the facts come out and I'm sure they will in time. It's terrible to hear about those two sailors, one's being treated for stress and pain that his chain of command inflicted on him and the other one committed suicide. A sad state of affairs all around. If memory serves, I read that there were alot of suicides at NSA Bahrain during that time period. Somone should also ask to see all of the command climate surveys during that time period. That would say alot about how things were going there during the time. Supposed professionals wreaking careless havoc on peoples lives. Just terrible and sad. The the navy locks up and won't say anything other than standard boilerplate damage control statements. There's something very wrong. I hope somebody really looks into it, and it's good to know that the one sailor brought it out in the open. At the end of the day, a young sailor was kicked out after being subjected to all of the terrible things in the article and one sailor is dead by her own hand. The navy should have helped this kid and done more and not looked the other way and passed the buck. It looks like the evil doers either got promoted or were allowed to retire with their blood money. Disheartening.sternum NICHOLS

It's time for Chief Michael Toussaint to do some hard time. It's disgusting vermin like this dude that have no place in a civil society.

Unfortunately, the Military culture since World War II has become more and more separate from mainstream American culture. It's a common slogan among the military circles that "civilians" will never know what it's like to be those that "defend them". Tragically, the reverse is much more true. Those who join the military are far less likely if at all to know what it is to be an honest, productive, independent member of a Free Republic. It takes courage to ASK for trade and business and it takes brains, actual merit and virtue to GET trade and business. It takes the height of arrogance and stupidity to publicly forget who it is PAYS TAXES FOR YOU. Far too often those who "call it service" to enlist are too cowardly to face life, too lazy to be productive as a private citizen, too stupid to be competitive and raised so poorly as to wish for a life of "taking orders" their entire lives. Any fool can take orders for life. Any idiot can fight. Any nut job can strap a bomb on. Any parasite can subsist off of the forced taxation and the production of others for life. The professional military makes possible constitutionally undeclared wars. Today's professional military make possible political wars which were the precisely the opposite of America's founded intentions. Worst of all, there are legitimate questions as to whether the military culture deliberately creates a world environment that justifies its own existence. Clearly there is a need for American defense and a American military. On the eve of World War II, the American Neutrality acts effectively all but disbanded the military. Yet, America still singlehandedly supplied the Allied War effort, and fought the war victoriously on multiple fronts, leading to decisive victories less than four years after entering the war. Today's so-called "professionals" take about four years to file their procurement "reports" in quadruplicate". America shouldn't be a nation of France or Poland 1939 but neither should America be a nation with a permanent large military political faction. Military History as often as not show that professional armies produce new sets of problems and are neither a sure guarantee of victory. On the other hand large professional militaries are wonderful gravy trains for their ambitious and self seeking commanders. It's time to return to the National Guard and Militia system. It's time to reintegrate military service with mainstream American society which normalizes military service and citizenship expectations with every citizen. Today's professional military culture is sick and fosters extremism, incompetence, waste, corruption and class warfare. It's time to cancel an extremist culture of trailer trash failures who hide from life and work in the name of "service". It's time to cancel a culture that places following orders above the great Western Traditions of truth, justice and human rights. Today's professional military culture is increasingly arrogant, disconnected from mainstream Americans, hostile to mainstream Americans and poses a threat to a free and prosperous republic. World War II is over. Let's rethink the United States Armed Forces. It's time to return to a War Department that goes to War when Congress declares war rather than at the WHIM of the commander-in-chief. It's time to return to a War Department that relies on the draft and an educated citizen population rather than a centralized feudal power model of serfs, soldiers, clergy and nobility. There are "Madoffs" in every walk of life who are yet to be found out, aren't there? It's time to return to a War Department which emphasizes and prioritizes the National Guard and Militia system. Tell Tale Signs 1) The professional military gives liberal elites a place to put trailer trash for life. Trailer trash who would otherwise be forced to earn a living independent of government service and become part of the democratic middle class. 2) The professional military is a great gathering place for the stupid, the lazy, the dishonest and politically ambitious all paid for at the taxpayer's expense. 3) The professional military gives liberals an additional place to organize society by social class. 4) The professional military supports a unionized support structure. Union scum controlled businesses are never viable businesses except where contracted and supported at taxpayer expenses. The advantage to union scum businesses is that they provide professional military leaders with a hierarchy organized control system at the base of their logistical support at the expense of the free republic. 4) America's Founding Fathers did not write amendments aimed at blacksmiths, butchers, bakers, tailors and candlestick makers but did write amendments with the military and police in mind. Amendments against search and seizure, quartering, torture, and in favor of defendants were all designed to thwart big government power and a so-called "uniform code of military justice" (a joke giving the arbitrary and uneducated nature of trailer trash and petty tyrants most often enforcing it). 5) A professional military makes unpopular wars possible. Since World War II, military actions without Congressional Declarations of War have been the rule not the exception. America's Republic was designed by America's Founding Father's with Congressional equality in mind (if not Congressional Supremacy). 6) Without a professional military, America would rely on a National Guard and a National Militia system where all citizens of the Republic would bear responsibility and duty in service and preparedness. It's time to cancel the professional military as a dangerous Anti-American institution filled with corrupt self-serving ambitious fools followed by welfare seeking trailer trash in the guise of "public service".