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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-09 08:35 AM
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US Army Suicide: "Beyond The Front"
 
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Posted on DU: February 18, 2009
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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.

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 in 2007.

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