The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June.
According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides. Twenty-one were on active duty, with the rest being among National Guards or Army Reserve in an inactive status, CNN reported Friday.
Psychologists have blamed renewed deployments and prolonged tours of duty as the major factors contributing to the higher suicide rate.
Last year was the worst for the US Army in terms of suicides with 244 confirmed or suspected cases despite the adoption of a range of initiatives by the army to try to contain the problem.
The US Department of Defense reported that 160 active-duty army soldiers committed suicide in 2009 up from 140 in 2008.
A total of 4,326 American soldiers have been killed in the war-torn Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. Iraq has witnessed bombings and terrorist attacks on an almost daily basis ever since.
Iraq has witnessed bombings and terrorist attacks on an almost daily basis since 2003.
Some 140,000 US-led troops are currently stationed in Afghanistan. A further 10,000 are expected to be deployed there in the coming weeks.
McChrystal’s replacement does not signal a change in US strategies in Afghanistan. The former commander, citing a letter by US Ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry, has said that should the American strategy fail in Afghanistan, it would be blamed on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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name one guy who committed suicide
Soldiers are dumb stupid animals good only for implementing foreign policy-Henry Kissenger. Haahahaha good they killed themselves; they were too dumb to do anything else anyways!
Good, We the American People need the Devils troops to kill off some of there numbers before they come back here to finish enslaving the American “once free” people.
Fighting for the Jewish-Master-Race is wrong.
We have killed sovereign nations that have never attacked the American people let alone the Jewish/led/US/UK/UN/EU/Empire.
All these solders are traitors, if George Washington were here, he would go over to the middle east just to grab these treacherous traitors to America and humanity by there collars and drag them kicking and screaming to near by trees to bring justice with a rope around there neck.
George Washington would show these Globalist boys what real manhood looks like.
And how its not brave to out number Afghan freedom fighters 14 to 1 and then talk in arrogant pride about how ward it was.
Washington knows what its like to be the minority fighting against an invading Empire who calls him a Terrorist.
As an American Patriot I relies that it is soon I will have to be fighting the evil Marines and Air force and Army along with all of the US-Empires world conquest thugs and goons!
Our Army betrayed the US along time ago when against our founding Fathers they went off with grins on there faces to fight foreign wars.
George Washington even said, do not get involved in European wars.
No the Global Jewish Led Empire comes for American guns and to make more phony hate crime laws of much of what Jesus taught.
And to finish of the Minority Japhethite (Aryan) peoples.
Thus committing further genocide against and already slaughtered people.
US-Empire troops. When you come home, you will go from fighting Afghan Freedom Fighters to fighting American Freedom Fighters. We aim to **** with our M4’s and whatever freedom protecting weapons we have.
If any of you surrender you will be handed over to international criminal courts for blatant war crimes.
All of you!
Just following orders is an illegal excuse by international law.
American Freedom for Americans coming soon…
Christian Patriotic Militias Arise in defence of your people
you inbred hillbilly moron. Try at the very least to write in English or is it you are actually from another country you pathetic piece of dog shit. The best part of you, Ran down your mamma’s chin douchbag.