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05-28-2009, 09:05 AM
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/05/ap_campbell_suicides_052709/
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Regular duties are suspended for three days at Fort Campbell, which leads the Army in suicides this year, so commanders can identify and help soldiers who are struggling with the stress of war and most at risk for killing themselves.
From January to March, the installation averaged one suicide per week, Townsend said. After an Army-wide suicide prevention campaign in started in March, there were no suicides for six weeks, he said.
“But last week we had two. Two in a week,” Townsend said.
The Army has said that soldier suicides reached the highest rate on record in 2008. Officials said the deaths in 2008 would amount to a rate of 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers, which is higher than the civilian rate, when adjusted to reflect the Army’s younger and male-heavy demographics.
Frequent deployments by the division since 2001 have contributed to the stress suffered by Campbell’s soldiers, said Col. Ken Brown, the head of chaplains on the installation.
bush's war continues to take it's toll. Something is haunting these soldiers, Iraq is not the pretty picture some would like to paint it.
You'd think U.S. citizens could vote to end this war considering it is our sons and daughters who are dying while our tax dollars go up in flames.
whose war is this again?
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/05/ap_campbell_suicides_052709/
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Regular duties are suspended for three days at Fort Campbell, which leads the Army in suicides this year, so commanders can identify and help soldiers who are struggling with the stress of war and most at risk for killing themselves.
From January to March, the installation averaged one suicide per week, Townsend said. After an Army-wide suicide prevention campaign in started in March, there were no suicides for six weeks, he said.
“But last week we had two. Two in a week,” Townsend said.
The Army has said that soldier suicides reached the highest rate on record in 2008. Officials said the deaths in 2008 would amount to a rate of 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers, which is higher than the civilian rate, when adjusted to reflect the Army’s younger and male-heavy demographics.
Frequent deployments by the division since 2001 have contributed to the stress suffered by Campbell’s soldiers, said Col. Ken Brown, the head of chaplains on the installation.
bush's war continues to take it's toll. Something is haunting these soldiers, Iraq is not the pretty picture some would like to paint it.
You'd think U.S. citizens could vote to end this war considering it is our sons and daughters who are dying while our tax dollars go up in flames.
whose war is this again?