Army accused of killing officer's career after she refused to play politics with suicide

Lt. Col. Joy Thomas, an Army Reservist, began her career at the lowest enlisted rank of the U.S. Army, climbing all the way to the rank of a senior commissioned officer over the course of 18 years of service.

Representing Thomas at a pending general court-martial trial is attorney R. Davis Younts, a retired lieutenant colonel. He told American Family News his client has “an outstanding, stellar record" and has excelled at everything she has done in her military career.

Her troubles began, the attorney alleges, because she was honest. While completing an active-duty tour at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, now known as Fort Liberty, Thomas was tasked with three suicide investigations in June 2018. The Army installation has been plagued with a “rash" of suicides in the past several years, and suicide is taken "very seriously" by the military, according to Younts.