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Army dealing with rising soldier suicides
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 13:21
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Army will end the controversial practice of stop loss, which requires soldiers to stay in the Army beyond the time their enlistment ends. The program will be phased out over the next two years. Meanwhile, the military continues to grapple with soldier suicides: in the army alone, as many as 188 active duty soldiers committed suicide over the past 15 months. FSRN’s Karen Miller looks at what the military is doing, and why some critics say it is not enough.
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soldier suicide
By 1982 more Viet Nam veterans had commited suicide than had died in the war. So the current numbers might be the tip of the coming iceberg. (And, gee, I remember pouring billions a week into a protracted, pointless war causing severe economic problems then, too.)