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Report: Military Needs New Office to Stem Suicides

WASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- Rushing to stem historically high rates of military suicides, the service branches set up prevention programs that lacked strategic planning and so don't work as well as they could, a report said Tuesday. The Pentagon should create a new high-level office to set strategy and coordinate prevention...

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,...