U.S. Marines Suffer Most Suicides in Five Years

[CatWoman]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Suicides of U.S. Marines have reached their highest level in five years, prompting a Defense Department effort to encourage Marines to seek mental health services, a Marine Corps spokesman said on Tuesday.

But spokesman Bryan Driver said there was no evidence linking the higher suicide rate with the long tours of duty and frontline fighting Marines have engaged in Iraq (news - web sites).

There have been 32 confirmed or probable suicides among 178,000 Marines this year, surpassing the 28 who killed themselves in 2001 as the United States invaded Afghanistan (news - web sites), Driver said.

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[Spinzonner]

1. Yeah, probably just a random coincidence

[livinginphotographs]

2. Wonder how long before the freepers rate this down to a 1.0.

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