Pentagon Needs Battle Plan for Troop-Suicide Threat

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While the U.S.’s foreign wars wind down, the body count at home keeps rising. The Pentagon said this week there were 349 suicides by active-duty members of the armed services in 2012, as opposed to 311 combat deaths.

Dave Cottrell’s insight:

It’s pretty rough when our men and women in the front lines die in the line of duty.  It’s tragic when more troops are dying from suicide than from battle.

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