Army General Chiarelli Tackles Issue of Soldier Suicide, abc this week, 8 August, 2010
Army Suicides in June Hit All-Time High
By JOSHUA MILLER
The number of army suicides hit an all-time high in June, with 32 servicemembers taking their own lives.
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.”
“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.”
