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US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans

15/02/2013

The Guardian

Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed themselves than died in combat. And after a decade of deployments to war zones, the Pentagon is bracing for things to get much worse


Fifty troops commit suicide after Iraq and Afghanistan tours

15/02/2013

The Telegraph

More than 50 members of the UK Armed Forces have committed suicide since serving in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, figures suggest.


Recently… on ‘moral injury’ and armed forces suicides in the US and UK

2012 was the the first year 'in at least a generation' in which a greater number of currently-serving US Army soldiers killed themselves (177) than were killed in active duty (176).


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