Tag: suicide

- U.S. Army: It’s not war; the “risky behavior” of our troops at home drives them to suicide. Did you know that a solider...

- One suicide every 36 hours - Contradicting  the U.S. Army's suicide prevention report, an independent DoD report released this week failed to place the blame for...

- Attempts to reverse the Dr. Sally Satel-Dallas Theological Seminary School of Treatment for PTSD—stressing belief in a Christian God over disability benefits and professional medical...

- The politicians, generals (if there be a difference), and assorted hacks and kiss-asses appearing on the news shows to discuss the epidemic of suicide...

- Every time the VA announces some improvement in benefits for veterans, the media caries the other side's view: Give our veterans nothing - By...

  DID ISRAEL GIVE US THE DISEASE TO SELL US THE CURE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor "Would you go to a doctor who worked in...

This heart wrenching take on Soldiers, Veterans, and Suicide was sent into us by Brother Willie Hager and our friends at VetSpeak. Graphics added by...

Created in the wake of the scandal in 2007 over serious shortcomings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate and return to duty or gently process out of the Army. There are currently about 7,200 soldiers at 32 transition units across the Army, with about 465 soldiers at Fort Carson’s unit.

Authorities might never completely determine why Jesse C. Huff dressed in Army fatigues, walked to the steps of the Dayton Veterans Affairs Department’s Medical Center and shot himself to death Friday morning. Police said they found no suicide note and knew of no ominous statements he made to employees while inside the medical center hours before his death.

Whatever the delusions of war planners, the costs come home and disperse. We're waging wars on different continents, but deadly echoes reverberate here. As Lt....

Four members of a US military intelligence unit assigned to Guantanamo Bay are questioning the government's official version of the deaths of three detainees in the summer of 2006. There are suspicions here that torture and other maltreatment may have led to their deaths while in US custody.

The wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a message 13 January for those trying to prevent military suicides: Don't forget the spouses. In addition, a study recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine claims a clear link between the incidents of Army wives attempting suicide and the deployment tempo of their husbands.

I am no psychiatrist or counselor but even I know when you take a young person and place them into an extended combat deployment four and five times, you have just made either a sociopath, a clinically depressed suicidal individual or a human being mimicing multiple personality disorder with a dash of schizo-affective disorder thrown in for good measure.

Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy James C. McKinley Jr. The New York Times KILLEEN, Tex. — The police officer who brought down...