Equally disturbing is the fact that when these families reached out to their chain of command for help, instead of getting the support that they desperately needed, they received shrugs of indifference, and they were told that there is nothing the military service could do to help them. Well, that was the wrong answer.
Garamendi criticizes military indifference towards families seeking help.
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