Second Suicide Battalion: Where Military Justice Weaponizes Mental Health

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Second Suicide Battalion: Where Military Justice Weaponizes Mental Health
APRIL 15, 2022| THOMAS J. BRENNAN
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a multipart series. Read part one.

On a Friday night at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on the anniversary of his stepsister taking her own life, Lance Cpl. Kameron Duval got drunk. He hallucinated as he walked across Gonzalez Boulevard and began to wade into the New River.

Duval planned to kill himself with the knife he carried and to let his body float downstream, he told The War Horse during a phone interview.

When a Marine staff sergeant was alerted to the Marine in distress, he searched the area and found Duval walking toward the embankment. He ordered Marines walking nearby to watch the sick Marine until military police and paramedics arrived, according to a Marine attorney familiar with the case.

He told the Marines not to approach Duval because of his unstable condition, the attorney said.

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