Army's Suicide Rate in Iraq Said Higher

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Army's Suicide Rate in Iraq About a Third Higher Than Usual, Pentagon's Top Doctor Says

The Associated Press


WASHINGTON Jan. 14 — The Army's suicide rate in Iraq has been about a third higher than past rates for troops during peacetime, the Pentagon's top doctor said Wednesday.

Also, the military still has about 2,500 troops waiting for medical care after returning from overseas, said Dr. William Winkenwerder, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. The Pentagon is preparing for even more soldiers on "medical extension" after tens of thousands of troops are rotated home from Iraq this spring, Winkenwerder said.


The issue of suicides so worried the military that the Army sent an assessment team to Iraq late last year to see if anything more could be done to prevent troops from killing themselves. The Army also began offering more counseling to returning troops after several soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., killed their wives and themselves after returning home from the war.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040114_842.html

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1. hmmm...

It seems that if guerilla forces dont kill our troops, dispair and hopelessness will....
*sigh*
And the Republicans and Freepers (one in the same?) claim to support our troops...