Thursday, August 16, 2007

War Stress Pushing Army Suicides Higher

Repeated and ever-longer war-zone tours are putting increasing pressure on military families, the Army said Thursday, helping push soldier suicides to a record rate. There were 99 Army suicides last year - nearly half of them soldiers who hadn’t reached their 25th birthdays, about a third of them serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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Posted by Tom Beckman on 08/16 at 10:30 PM
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