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Highest Suicide Record Among US Soldiers, a Tragic Reminder of High War Costs : Barack Obama
The spike came in a year that saw the highest US casualties in Iraq and increased levels of violence in Afghanistan, but officials said the trend has continued into 2008.
Barack Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, called it "a tragic reminder of the staggering and ongoing costs of the Iraq war, particularly on our troops and their families."
Army officials acknowledged that long and repeated combat deployments were a major source of stress in soldiers’ lives, but they found no direct relationship between increased conflict and suicides.
"In terms of this current conflict we see a lot of things going on in the war which do contribute," said Colonel Elspeth Ritchie.
"Mainly it is the long time and multiple deployments away from home, the exposure to really terrifying and horrifying things, the easy availability of loaded weapons, and, of course, it’s very, very busy right now," she said.
In a report, the army said the 115 confirmed suicides raised the suicide rate to 18.8 percent per thousand for the active duty army in 2007, or 16.6 percent if based on a larger pool that includes reservists on active duty.
The suicide rate among active service members was 17.3 per 100,000 in 2006, compared to 12.8 in 2005 and 10.8 in 2004. In 2001 the rate was 9.8 per 100,000.
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