Deadly Deployment: Seal Suicide

A Deadly Deployment, a Navy SEAL’s Despair

By NICHOLAS KULISH and CHRISTOPHER DREW
JAN. 19, 2016

Commander Price “had a look of defeat,” his adviser on Afghan tribal affairs told investigators. “I personally wondered if he was at a breaking point.”

He had told someone close to him, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern about being ostracized from the tight-knit SEAL community, that team commander was the loneliest position he had ever held. He felt unable to confide in the men above or below him for fear of looking weak.