11.5.2010: Army Reports Record Number of Suicides

[unhappycamper]

Staff Sgt. Sarah Campbell Hester with her husband Richard Hester. Richard Hester committed suicide in 2006.


Army Reports Record Number of Suicides
By Don Teague
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 5, 2010

CBS) After returning from Iraq in 2006, Staff Sgt. Sarah Campbell Hester was looking forward to enjoying life, newly married to a soldier who had also just returned from war, reports CBS News correspondent Don Teague.

"He was just funny, he was the ultimate prankster, very solid with the unit," Hester said.

But secretly her husband was a man in crisis, unable to readjust to life after war.

"Iraq changed him, he came back kind of an angry man," Hester said.

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The Army's suicide rate is now double the national average. There were 162 suicides in Army ranks in 2009 - a record. Fort Hood has had a record 20 confirmed or suspected suicides this year, four in just one week in September.

[Gravel Democrat]

1. k+r

[w8liftinglady]

2. happy f#cking Veterans Day.

there is no end to the trauma these guys go through.

A comment to my editorial on PTSD...from one of the residents of a "Grateful nation"
"These guys all volunteered.PTSD is just a term for sissies"

Since I couldn't tell him to go fuck himself,I simply said..."Bless You"

What a bunch of clueless bastards we live amongst.