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Army Reports Mixed Picture On Soldier Mental Health -- Suicides Decline, But Violence Climbing

(1/23/2012)

By Pauline Jelinek
Associated Press
January 19, 2012

The number of suicides among soldiers has been leveling off but there's been a dramatic jump in domestic violence, sex crimes and other destructive behavior in a force that has been stressed by a decade of war, a new Army report said Thursday.

View the full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/army-reports-mixed-picture-on-soldier-mental-health-_-suicides-decline-but-violence-climbing/2012/01/19/gIQAbF73AQ_story.html


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