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Article: SUICIDE RATE AMONG U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ RAISES CONCERN.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 23, 2003
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Byline: RANDALL RICHARD Associated Press
Since April, the military says, at least 17 Americans -- 15 Army soldiers and two Marines -- have taken their own lives in Iraq. The true number is almost certainly higher. At least two dozen non-combat deaths, some of them possible suicides, are under investigation, according to an Associated Press review of Army casualty reports.
No one in the military is saying for the record that the suicide rate among forces in Iraq is alarming. But Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top American military commander in Iraq, was concerned enough, according to the Army Surgeon General's office, to have ordered a 12-person mental ...