Army wife murders

[Don Vito Corleone]

WTH is going on at Fort Bragg? Four wives have been killed, two in murder-suicides, in the past six weeks. This is getting spooky . . .

 

[Mill]

I saw this. Three out of Four were Special Forces returning from assignment in Afganistan.

 

[SuperCyrix]

The truth is out there

 

[Booster]

Sounds strange. Hard to believe such stuff can happen.

 

[Aquaman]

How very sad

Condolensces,
Aquaman

 

[tcsenter]

Not that its a justified excuse, but no doubt some of these men have come home from living in a hellish dung-heap for months, getting shot at frequently, only to find that their wives had a revolving door installed in the bedroom while the husband was gone. Happens a lot when soldiers are away.

Or weak-willed women find they cannot hack it because the husband is away for long periods and they have to manage the house/children by themselves, sleep alone at night, boo hoo I was lonely, etc. though they knew what it was all about before they got married.

I would be pretty furious if I had just spent 3 months in some hell-hole getting my ass shot at only to return to a wife who gripes about how horrible it was running out of her favorite bon-bons she likes to eat while sitting on the couch watching The Young and the Restless.

 

[Azraele]

Strange and very sad.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Not that its a justified excuse, but no doubt some of these men have come home from living in a hellish dung-heap for months, getting shot at frequently, only to find that their wives had a revolving door installed in the bedroom while the husband was gone. Happens a lot when soldiers are away.

Or weak-willed women find they cannot hack it because the husband is away for long periods and they have to manage the house/children by themselves, sleep alone at night, boo hoo I was lonely, etc. though they knew what it was all about before they got married.

I would be pretty furious if I had just spent 3 months in some hell-hole getting my ass shot at only to return to a wife who gripes about how horrible it was running out of her favorite bon-bons she likes to eat while sitting on the couch watching The Young and the Restless.

You are certainly placing a lot of blame on the victims based on your purely hypothetical assumptions about what these guys came home to. The fact is, they chose a military life (as I did), in a high ops-tempo career field (i.e., special forces). The phenomenon you describe is one potential part of military deployments, but it is by no means always the case.