Army Suicide Prevention Task Force News

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What's Behind the Rise in Military Suicides?

(Sept. 30) -- After four apparent suicides in a single weekend, troops and their families are reeling -- but they need to be braced for more. That was the warning from Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a conference this morning. "The emergency issue right now is suicides,'' Mullen told...

Army Preps Massive Study to Target Record High Troop Suicides

(July 29) -- A survey expected to include 400,000 troops is set to start this summer, in a Pentagon-backed bid to rein in the alarming number of military suicides, which reached an all-time high this June. (An average of one troop a day, including members of the National Guard and Army Reserves, killed themselves.) Now,...