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He Pulled A Knife and the Army Protected Him For 18 Months

⚠️ Content note: this episode discusses suicide, PTSD, military trauma, and medication. If you or someone you know is struggling, support links are at the bottom of this description.

Three veteran suicides every fortnight. Up to 3,000 dead in a decade, according to the Royal Commission. And the system meant to protect them is, in Andrew Hovenden's words, putting them on ice.

Andrew sits down with Emeka to talk about what really broke him in the Australian Army. It wasn't combat. It wasn't a war zone. It was a senior NCO pulling a push knife on him in the Malaysian jungle, then his own chain of command turning the investigation on him for the next 18 months.

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