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Article: USA: ARMY CREATES SUICIDE PREVENTION TASK FORCE DURING 'STAND DOWN'.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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According to DOD: The Army has created a suicide prevention task force as part of its month-long "stand-down" to address suicides among soldiers, the service's vice chief of staff said yesterday. Maj. Gen. Colleen McGuire, the Army's director of senior leader development, has been selected to head up the task force, Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli told military bloggers and online journalists at a Blogger's Roundtable hosted by the Defense Media Activity. "Suicide is a multi-dimensional problem and, as such, will take a multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with it," Chiarelli said. In keeping with the complexity of the problem, the task force will have members from a range of ...