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Subject: These soldiers -- 24 in January -- are not committing suicide --
they being murdered by mercenary black-ops because they are going "Tillman"
and present a threat to war criminal leadership
These soldiers -- 24 in January -- are not committing suicide -- they being
murdered by mercenary black-ops because they are "going Tillman" and present
a threat to war criminal leadership. The thinkers, the leaders, the men of
conscience can't be allowed prolonged contact with the other soldiers. This
goes hand in hand with the hit-man assassinations of Iraq's scientists,
professionals and technicians and acts of false-flag "terrorism" used to
provoke conflict between different Iraqi Moslem groups and political groups
who are in reality totally innocent of these crimes. -- Dick Eastman
received:
February 5, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/army.suicides/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide
rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in
possible suicides in the new year.
If reports of suicides are confirmed, more soldiers will have taken their
lives in January than died in combat.
If reports of suicides are confirmed, more soldiers will have taken their
lives in January than died in combat.
The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January
alone -- six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008, according
to statistics released Thursday.
The Army said it already has confirmed seven suicides, with 17 additional
cases pending that it believes investigators will confirm as suicides for
January.
If those prove true, more soldiers will have killed themselves than died in
combat last month. According to Pentagon statistics, there were 16 U.S.
combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq in January.
"This is terrifying," an Army <http://topics.cnn.com/topics/U_S_Army>
official said. "We do not know what is going on."
Col. Kathy Platoni, chief clinical psychologist for the Army Reserve and
National Guard, said that the long, cold months of winter could be a major
contributor to the January spike.
"There is more hopelessness and helplessness because everything is so dreary
and cold," she said.
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But Platoni said she sees the multiple deployments, stigma associated with
seeking treatment and the excessive use of anti-depressants as ongoing
concerns for mental-health professionals who work with soldiers.
Those who are seeking mental-health care often have their treatment
disrupted by deployments. Deployed soldiers also have to deal with the
stress of separations from families.
"When people are apart you have infidelity, financial problems, substance
abuse and child behavioral problems," Platoni said. "The more deployments,
the more it is exacerbated."
Platoni also said that while the military has made a lot of headway in
training leaders on how to deal with soldiers who may be suffering from
depression or post-traumatic
<http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Post_Traumatic_Stress_Disorder> stress
disorder, "there is still a huge problem with leadership who shame them when
they seek treatment."
The anti-depressants prescribed to soldiers can have side effects that
include suicidal thoughts. Those side effects reportedly are more common in
people 18 to 24.
Concern about last month's suicide rate was so high, Congress and the Army
leadership were briefed. In addition, the Army took the rare step of
releasing data for the month rather than waiting to issue it as part of
annual statistics at the end of the year.
In January 2008, the Army recorded two confirmed cases of suicides
<http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Suicide> and two other cases it was
investigating.
Last week, in releasing the report that showed a record number of suicides
in 2008, the Army said it soon will conduct servicewide training to help
identify soldiers at risk of suicide.
The program, which will run February 15 through March 15, will include
training to recognize behaviors that may lead to suicide and instruction on
how to intervene. The Army will follow the training with another teaching
program, from March 15 to June 15, focused on suicide prevention at all unit
levels.
The 2008 numbers were the highest annual level of suicides among soldiers
since the Pentagon began tracking the rate 28 years ago. The Army said 128
soldiers were confirmed to have committed suicide in 2008, and an additional
15 were suspected of having killed themselves. The statistics cover
active-duty soldiers and activated National Guard and reserves.
The Army's confirmed rate of suicides in 2008 was 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers.
The nation's suicide rate was 19.5 per 100,000 people in 2005, the most
recent figure available, Army officials said last month.
Suicides for Marines were also up in 2008. There were 41 in 2008, up from 33
in 2007 and 25 in 2006, according to a Marines report.
In addition to the new training, the service has a program called
Battlemind, intended to prepare soldiers and their families to cope with the
stresses of war before, during and after deployment. It also is intended to
help detect mental-health issues before and after deployments.
The Army and the National Institute of Mental Health signed an agreement in
October to conduct research to identify factors affecting the mental and
behavioral health of soldiers and to share strategies to lower the suicide
rate. The five-year study will examine active-duty, National Guard and
reserve soldiers and their families.
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