{"id":527,"date":"2010-08-16T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesteptoegroup.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-08-16T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:08:16","slug":"army-general-chiarelli-tackles-issue-of-soldier-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesteptoegroup.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Army General Chiarelli Tackles Issue of Soldier Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Army General Chiarelli Tackles Issue of Soldier Suicide, abc this week, 8 August, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Army Suicides in June Hit All-Time High
\nBy JOSHUA MILLER<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of army suicides hit an all-time high in June<\/a>, with 32 servicemembers taking their own lives.<\/p>\n

A startling 350-page U.S. Army report released last week was stark in its assessment of the growing tragedy: “Simply stated, we are often more dangerous to ourselves than the enemy.”<\/p>\n

“We have an army that’s, for almost a decade, has been going very, very hard with our operational tempo,” Army General Peter Chiarelli told Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on ‘This Week.’ “[It has] our soldiers deployed for 12 months, home anywhere from 12 to 16 months, and back for another 12- or 15-month deployment.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/army-general-chiarelli-tackles-issue-soldier-suicide\/story?id=11351920<\/a><\/p>\n

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