Only "contributing," NOT CAUSING, huh?
Please read Surprise!: Boston Globe Discovers Anti-War Protests first, because this issue hits close to home.
No one likes to wake up and realize they are a NAZI, readers, least of all our SERVICE MEN and WOMEN (if they do, then there is an even more serious mental disturbance with them).
"Army tries to combat soldier suicide; Interactive video will teach recruits with virtual stress" by Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post | October 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Alarmed by a record rate of suicide in its ranks, the Army has unveiled a unique prevention tool: an interactive video to be mandatory viewing Army-wide in which soldiers will play the role of an anguished infantryman and make virtual choices that lead the character to get help or, in the worst case, shoot himself in the head.
How about NOT SENDING them to WARS based on DAMNABLE LIES instead?
NOT EVEN a THOUGHT, 'eh, MSM and government -- despite that being EXACTLY what the PEOPLE WANT!!!!!
The video is one of several initiatives launched by the Army to try to stem the suicide rate among active-duty soldiers. That rate increased from 12.4 per 100,000 in 2003, when the Iraq war started, to 18.1 per 100,000 last year.
More of BUSH'S LEGACY for you to CHOKE DOWN, 'murka!!!
If the trend continues, the death rate this year is likely to exceed that of a demographically similar segment of the US population - 19.5 per 100,000, Stephens said - which has not happened since the Vietnam War.
Army officials will begin distributing copies of the video by December, making it mandatory instruction for members of all active units, including the National Guard and Reserves. "I don't know of anything that's as sophisticated and innovative as this product," said Colonel Elspeth Ritchie, a psychiatrist at the Army Surgeon General's Office.
Abdoulaye Bah, director of the Center for Suicide Prevention, Research and Studies at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo.:
"[Lengthy deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are contributing to the rise in suicides by straining relationships and causing mental health problems]. Repeated deployments have really taken a toll in the Army. For some reason, they didn't want to accept that early on, but now they have." --more--"
