Tag: Suicides
Posted on Thu Dec 21, 2006 at 01:05:57 PM EST
Tags: Suicides, Iraq (all tags)
Why isn't the mainstream media all over this? Editor and Publisher has the details on the increase of troop suicides in Iraq.
Twenty-two U.S. soldiers in Iraq took their lives in 2005, a rate of 19.9 per 100,000 soldiers, just over the rate in 2003 (the year of the U.S. invasion). In 2004, the rate had slid to 10.5 per 100,000, which the military said was due to efforts at prevention.
....A survey of the morale and mental health of U.S. soldiers in Iraq in late 2005 found 13.6 percent of the soldiers reporting symptoms of acute stress and another 16.5 percent describing a combination of depression, anxiety and acute stress. These numbers, about 30% total, were also up from 2004.
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