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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (126040)	12/2/2009 10:39:52 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543213

I think the more you see of war, the more likely the weaker folks are to develop mental problems. I'm not sure that's an indictment of the way we pick people - since I'm not sure anyone (at this point in psychiatric medicine) can tell you who will break under stress and who will not. I don't think "qualifying" probably has much to do with underlying, and probably latent, mental illness.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (126040)	12/2/2009 7:20:54 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543213

Have you any statistics to compare suicide rates within military to civilians in the USA? From what I have seen the rates in the military are not much different than for civilians. Why are suicide rates much higher in rich countries with government health care? No doubt the mental health care for combat veterans needs improvement. Imagine a sick leadership structure that had veterans visiting for counseling Dr.jihadist who did all the killing at Fort Hood.