The US Army announces that there were 18 suspected suicides in February after an alarming increase in soldier suicides in January.
“It’s a very high number, it’s very disturbing,” Col. Thomas Languirand, head of the Army suicide prevention program, said Thursday.
“We’re taking every effort we can think of” to try to bring it down, he added.
The spike continues a four-year rise in an Army under stress from costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Army normally releases figures on self-inflicted deaths only once a year.
The large number of 24 suspected in January caused officials to announce suicides monthly to focus attention on the problem and on prevention programs available.
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli said there were two confirmed suicides in February and 16 suspected but still being investigated.
In February 2008, 11 soldiers committed suicide.
The vast majority of suspected suicides are eventually confirmed, but the investigations can take months, AP reported.
When January figures were first released last month, officials said there were seven confirmed and 17 pending, a figure updated Thursday to 12 confirmed and 12 pending.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:08 am
This is easy to explain, take a bunch of young minds, pound some crap into their heads, send them off to slaughter innocent women children and men. Then bring them back to the world and fill their heads with Prozac and other suiside drugs when they grow a conscience and find out 911 was and INSIDE JOB!!!
Its all of our fault for being so stupid!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:11 am
DID I SAY FUCK! FUCKEN FUCK!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:14 am
THIS IS THE PROBLEM. WHEN THESE MILITARY MEN COME HOME FROM HELL AND STOP EATING THE FOOD THAT IS FILLED WITH ANTI- DEPRESSANTS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE WHEN THESE DRUGS FINALLY WEAR OF REALITY SETS IN ON WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ
March 6th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I was there.We did even worse than that, cuz I can assure you, killing innocents didn’t happen much, definitley not where i was…WE DID NOTHING!!! And by nothing, I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! Wrap your brain around that…it is a true story.
Tesla Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hooahtard, what exactly are you trying to say? Who is killing all these people? Please give us a first person account so we can understand. Talking in riddles won’t help any of your friends here or still over there. Respect.
Tesla
March 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
“We’re taking every effort we can think of” to try to bring it down, he added.
How about you end the war ON TERROR, IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN, POLICING THE WORLD ???
It’s just a thought of course. Wouldn’t want to make it to complicated.
March 7th, 2009 at 3:06 am
The sham VA is hiding horrific statistics
Lev Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
They also hide the truth about depleted uranium poisoning, *cough* sorry, I mean the mysterious mystery illness called “Gulf War Syndrome”.
March 7th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Mr Hoora dude, first thanks for you service i am sure you had all good intentions.
But “Not Many” Is TOO MANY and the dudes who pulled the trigger have to feel it, now knowing the numbers of Iraqie dead “1,000,000?” My seneraio is probably right on
Hooahtard Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Ty dude, I’m just saying that if innocents did die, it didn’t happen where I was.
(P.S. The American Truther Movement is VERY STRONG within the Army, if anything was to happen it would SPLIT INTO FRAGMENTS.)
So many people just don’t have their hearts in it. There’s reasons for everything.
Lev Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Question: Do you remember a couple years back when Bush cashiered Gen. Kevin Byrnes, head of TRADOC, supposedly because he committed adultery? There was a lot of speculation in certain circles at the time that the adultery story was just a cover and that he was actually fired because Bush (Cheney) feared that the popular general could be preparing a coup to overthrow his dictatorial ass? What is your opinion on this matter? Did you hear anything about it through military channels?
March 7th, 2009 at 8:35 am
I agree with every word Mr Begotka!
March 7th, 2009 at 9:55 am
There is a direct link between suicide and anti-depressants.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
So soldiers can NOT kill them self – why? IF they DO KILL them self – then what FUN would the NWO HAVE…
“if I can NOT have these soldiers – no-one can” is what the whole article is summed up to…
March 7th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
War is a meat grinder of mind, body and too often the soul.
tom Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Who’s to say anyone is committing suicide over there? Maybe, for one reason or another, these soldiers are being killed.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Less than effective mind controll during training on the part of the military is to blame – mind altering drugs may play a part, just like the gulf war synrome was caused by tainted vaccines that were supposed to protect them but instead did the oppisite somehow.