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By SETH ROBSON - Stars and Stripes
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Starting this summer, researchers plan to survey up to 400,000 soldiers as part of the largest study to date of suicide and mental health among military personnel.
It’s the next phase in a $50 million, five-year study the Army and the The National Institute of Mental Health have been conducting since 2008 in hopes of…
Watch the video here: Gen. Helmick leads discussion on soldier deaths
As a battalion commander in the mid-1990s, Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick had to notify a soldier’s family that he had died in a training accident.
Helmick said the family had three questions: Where is the body; was he in any pain; and how do you raise a daughter without a father?
“It’s one of those things you never forget…
COL. DAVID LAPAN (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Media Operations): Good morning, all here at the Pentagon, and good evening in Afghanistan.
I’d like to welcome to the Pentagon Briefing Room via digital video Major General John Campbell, commanding general for Regional Command East in Afghanistan. General Campbell assumed his duties just over one month ago on June 14th, and he joins us today from his
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