Soldiers death in Afghanistan ruled a suicide
APPLETON WI — A 25-year-old Appleton soldier who died last year in Afghanistan committed suicide, said the U.S. Army agency that investigated the death. The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command,...
View ArticleSuicides Outpacing War Deaths for Troops
From the New York Times By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Published: June 8, 2012 The suicide rate among the nation’s active-duty military personnel has spiked this year, eclipsing the number of troops dying in...
View ArticleVA Supports Family and Friends Seeking to Encourage Vets to Get Mental Health...
Media Campaign Promotes “Coaching Into Care” Program WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs recently completed a media campaign for its call center “Coaching Into Care,” a telephone service...
View ArticleSoldier Suicide: The Stigma to Seeking Help
From Time.com by By RAJIV SRINIVASAN It’s never a highly publicized affair on a military post. When we pass through our commissary and pick up the installation newsletter, we are used to seeing an...
View Article$10 Million More for Military Suicide Prevention
The House approved an amendment to next year’s defense spending bill Wednesday night that shifts $10 million from training Afghan security forces to fighting suicide in the ranks of the U.S. military....
View ArticleFighting military suicides with peer counseling
(CBS News) The Pentagon granted a six-month extension Wednesday to a pilot call-in program for American military personnel considering suicide. The suicide rate among both active-duty troops and...
View ArticleVA Mobilizes Veterans’ Supporters for Suicide Prevention Month
Veterans’ Communities, Families Asked to ‘Stand by Them’ WASHINGTON (Sept. 10, 2012) — In recognition of September as Suicide Prevention Month, the Department of Veterans Affairs is calling on...
View ArticleScores of recent Texas war veterans have died of overdoses, suicide and...
By American-Statesman Investigative Team They survived the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But they did not survive the homecoming. A six-month American-Statesman investigation, which paints the...
View ArticleSergeant carried his secret anguish home
From the Leaf-Chronicle by Philip Grey CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Sgt. Justin Junkin came home from Afghanistan to his wife and infant daughter in May 2011, carrying his weapon, his gear and a bomb inside...
View ArticleVeterans can find help through crisis line
By MARY WICOFF Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. Published: October 7, 2012 DANVILLE — Veterans in crisis no longer have to keep the problem a secret — especially if it’s something life-threatening,...
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