One of Brown’s friends offered to stop by his townhouse before heading over. The door was unlocked. The lights were off. On speakerphone with the others, he searched the house, then stepped outside and looked through the window of Brown’s car. He found him sitting in the driver’s seat, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Everyone on the call heard the moment he realized what he was seeing. On the other end of the line, several friends fell to their knees sobbing.

Brown’s death was one of hundreds in the past decade that the Air Force has quietly logged and filed away as another isolated tragedy. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth obsesses over the supposed “softening” and “weakening” of American troops, the Pentagon is concealing the scale of a real threat to the lives of his military’s active-duty members: a suicide crisis killing hundreds of members of the U.S. Air Force.

Data The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act shows that of the 2,278 active-duty Air Force deaths between 2010 and 2023, 926 — about 41 percent — were suicides, overdoses, or preventable deaths from high-risk behavior in a decade when combat deaths were minimal.

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    Let’s lay out a few things.

    Firstly, Nazis in the U.S. are predominantly Christian. One of the big ones that kids are taught in Christianity is that you do not commit suicide.

    Secondly, Nazis do murder. Their entire goal is to extract every last ounce of value from literally anything they can justify to their base, by any means necessary. Case in point: concentration camps.

    So does it make sense to you that under your assumption that the Air Force are U.S. Nazis, that the Nazis in the Air Force are killing themselves over what is literally their entire goal? Like, are you aware of the gravity of that action, as a Christian?

    Whelp, I’ve done what I can as a good Christian Nationalist to wipe out the browns. Time to kill myself so that I… can’t get into heaven.

    Idk, that logic doesn’t track to me. Horrific atrocities committed by the Air Force notwithstanding.

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            Absolutely, I’m not arguing that — do you understand that what you’re saying is logically unsound?

            Edit: If your argument continues to betray a lack of understanding of how the average American MAGA has been brainwashed, I’m not going to bother trying to argue this.