How many soldiers have to die before the Army stops pushing them toward suicide?

How many soldiers have to die before the Army stops pushing them toward suicide?
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
October 14, 2013

The Army isn't the only guilty branch but since they have the most suicides and attempted suicides, you'd think they'd know better but it turns out while they call it prevention, it actually has turned out to do more harm than good.

"Most people you talk to, who have been through it, will say it's a game changer," said Gen. John Campbell, the Army vice chief of staff.

Is he out of his mind? I suppose it all depends on who the people are he is talking to because the veterans and their families I talk to have a whole different opinion of this. It is a load of crap! Plain and simple. Telling them they can train to be resilient is one thing but while the DOD seems to think it is good, what the troops hear is that if they end up with PTSD, they are weak minded.

I have had to talk them off the ledge after failed suicide attempts and one I finally get this brainwashing out of their heads, they are pissed off the military put them through needless hell. If the evidence of higher suicides after this program started isn't enough to convince them pulling this stunt on the troops was a bad idea, nothing will. Evidently they think a research project for school aged kids was enough to push it on the troops all these years and watch them die. Hell, considering General Odierno blamed soldiers and families for suicides the Army must really feel that way or they would have stopped this a long time ago.

Army expanding mental health program despite research
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
USA TODAY
Gregg Zoroya
October 7, 2013

The Army is expanding a $50-million-per-year program created in 2009 to help soldiers withstand mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder despite research by its own scientists showing it does nothing to reduce PTSD.

Study authors said the training created small, indirect benefits but not affect PTSD rates. Their report was posted online earlier this year and scientists recently discussed their findings with USA TODAY.

"I wish this was the magic bullet," said lead author Peter Harms, an assistant professor of management at the University of Nebraska. "I wish we found huge findings. I think we found reasonable things."

About 900,000 soldiers receive instruction each year in the program, originally called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness or CSF. It is being expanded this year under the name Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness and will cost $75 million annually by 2019.
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Zoroya did a good job on this but if you read Wounded Times then you already know he is only closer than other reporters but far off the amount of money really paid for this BS.

If you don't read Wounded Times read about Suicides After War and discover exactly what was known and how much they spent for this no matter how many had to die to prove them wrong!