Word: afghanistan
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VICTOR YERMAKOV, a Soviet-army commander who fought in Afghanistan during the '80s, arguing that the U.S. is waging an "unwinnable" campaign...
Forward Operating Base Airborne, WARDAK PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN...
...GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, on President Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan...
...Soldiers who are suffering from posttraumatic stress are six times more likely to commit suicide than those that are not," General Peter Chiarelli told the House Armed Services Committee on Dec. 10. "The greatest single debilitating injury of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is posttraumatic stress." Nearly 1 in 5 soldiers - more than 300,000 - comes home from the wars reporting symptoms of PTSD. Army officials also acknowledge that substance abuse, fueled by repeated combat tours, and a war-created shortage of mental-health professionals, contribute to mental ills that can lead to suicide...
...alcohol and prescription drugs by soldiers as a mental-health issue that can lead to suicide. "I think there's a link to substance abuse in some of the issues we're seeing," Chiarelli said last month. A recent Army study shows that the percentage of soldiers in Afghanistan taking antidepressants and other mental-health drugs nearly tripled - from 3.5% to 9.8% - between their first and third deployments...