Suicidal man shot by police was veteran with PTSD
Posted: Jan 16, 2013
by Sam Salzwedel
TUCSON - A suicidal man shot by police was a veteran receiving treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to his parents.
Dustin Wernli, 30, called 911 Tuesday night saying he wanted an officer to shoot him, according to the Tucson Police Department.
Officers talked to Wernli for about 15 minutes when he pulled a gun and an officer lethally shot him, according to TPD.
Wernli was a Navy medic who was deployed with the Marine Corps in Iraq, according to his father.
He suffered a brain injury from an explosion in 2004. He was receiving treatment from the VA hospital for PTSD, according to Wernli's father.
A veteran commits suicide every 20 minutes, according to Dan Ranieri with La Frontera Arizona.
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also killed
Schofield Barracks soldier shot by police
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Former Marines arrested in dismemberment case
Former Marines arrested in dismemberment case
Marine Corps Times
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Jan 17, 2013
Two former Marines have been arrested in Boone County, Ky., where authorities have charged them and a third man with kidnapping, torturing and dismembering a young man whose remains were found scattered in several locations.
Stephen E. Harkness, 22, and Jeffrey W. Allen, 21, both of Verona, Ky., along with Anthony Baumgartner, 23, of Florence, Ky., were arrested early Tuesday and charged with kidnapping, torture, murder and dismemberment, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department announced. The three men were being held without bail and were scheduled to make their first court appearance Thursday.
“Detectives were led to an undisclosed location in Verona... where they discovered the torso and some dismembered body parts of a white man wrapped and discarded in a field,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Detectives “also learned the missing body parts had supposedly been disposed of in a Dumpster in Florence.” Investigators also combed a landfill in Butler, Ky.
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Marine Corps Times
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Jan 17, 2013
Two former Marines have been arrested in Boone County, Ky., where authorities have charged them and a third man with kidnapping, torturing and dismembering a young man whose remains were found scattered in several locations.
Stephen E. Harkness, 22, and Jeffrey W. Allen, 21, both of Verona, Ky., along with Anthony Baumgartner, 23, of Florence, Ky., were arrested early Tuesday and charged with kidnapping, torture, murder and dismemberment, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department announced. The three men were being held without bail and were scheduled to make their first court appearance Thursday.
“Detectives were led to an undisclosed location in Verona... where they discovered the torso and some dismembered body parts of a white man wrapped and discarded in a field,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Detectives “also learned the missing body parts had supposedly been disposed of in a Dumpster in Florence.” Investigators also combed a landfill in Butler, Ky.
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Vietnam Veteran became part of history and didn't know it
Veteran surprised to see his photo in Vietnam War book
Portland Daily Register
By Jen McCoy
Daily Register
The smell of death lingers in Ron Woodard’s nose to this day. The first sight of war snapped him into hyper vigilance over the jungles of Vietnam, Woodard said.
“It was the first time I saw a napalm bomb. This white canister hit the side of a hill and the whole hill caught on fire,” he said. “I was an 18-year-old kid. I thought, ‘That’s where they’re sending me?’ When I saw that napalm I was ready to go home.”
It was the first time in a helicopter for the Portage native, Woodard said, and he recalls it vividly. However, the 62-year-old veteran said he doesn’t remember a photographer on board. But on page 18 he’s featured in “The Illustrated History of Marines: The Vietnam War” by Edwin H. Simmons.
In 2008, Woodard received the book as gift from family members Sharon and Dave Lake. The couple own Ravenswood Books in Wisconsin Dells.
“Dave knew Ron had been in the service. My husband is always buying stuff for resale. He knew what the book was about but he didn’t know the actual person was in the book,” Sharon said.
While thumbing through the pages, Woodard stopped upon seeing himself.
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Portland Daily Register
By Jen McCoy
Daily Register
The smell of death lingers in Ron Woodard’s nose to this day. The first sight of war snapped him into hyper vigilance over the jungles of Vietnam, Woodard said.
“It was the first time I saw a napalm bomb. This white canister hit the side of a hill and the whole hill caught on fire,” he said. “I was an 18-year-old kid. I thought, ‘That’s where they’re sending me?’ When I saw that napalm I was ready to go home.”
It was the first time in a helicopter for the Portage native, Woodard said, and he recalls it vividly. However, the 62-year-old veteran said he doesn’t remember a photographer on board. But on page 18 he’s featured in “The Illustrated History of Marines: The Vietnam War” by Edwin H. Simmons.
In 2008, Woodard received the book as gift from family members Sharon and Dave Lake. The couple own Ravenswood Books in Wisconsin Dells.
“Dave knew Ron had been in the service. My husband is always buying stuff for resale. He knew what the book was about but he didn’t know the actual person was in the book,” Sharon said.
While thumbing through the pages, Woodard stopped upon seeing himself.
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American River College Professor anti-veteran rants
Aside from the thousands of news reports on this blog proving why our veterans fight for this country, there is one post that I believe answers that question loud and clear.
Professor Caught on Tape Giving Anti-Veteran Rant
FOX 40
7 hours ago
by Ben Deci
SACRAMENTO
Not all Professor Tom Brozovich’s students believe that the lessons they are getting in his American River College art history class are appropriate, especially when it comes to the question of patriotism.
Shiloh David Helman, a veteran, was one of what he describes as handful of students who walked out on a lecture given by Professor Brozovich last semester, after he says Brozovich went on an anti-vet rant.
“He told me that I’m the problem with America,” Helman told FOX40.
Since then, another Iraq-era veteran has given us some lecture tapes from the same art history class, from last Spring, to demonstrate why he says he walked-out a number of times himself.
“Americans have been mislead to believe that the folks killed on 9/11 were all innocent victims. That’s not entirely true,” Brozovich can be heard saying on the tape.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
DOD update on status of PTSD care, more of the same
Let me put this as simply as possible.
The Army created a suicide prevention board in October 2008.
So there is no excuse for this.
DOD Health Official Updates Status of PTSD, TBI Care
“Our job is to make the system better so that our service members, their families and veterans get better care,” he told the Recovering Warrior Task Force, whose mission is to provide DOD with advice on managing care for post-traumatic stress disorder and TBI.Especially when the result has been an increase in not just attempted suicides but in successful deaths by their own hands.
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