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...returning to war], that we're going to have a higher rate." Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said pressure on the Army means that for the next two years, soldiers will continue to ship off to their next combat tour without sufficient rest at home...
...spike on repeated deployments to war zones, evidence is mounting to the contrary. Only about a third of Army suicides happen in war zones, officials note, and another third are among personnel who had never deployed. But that means two-thirds of Army suicides have deployed, many returning home with mental scars that make them prone to take their own lives, the Army's No. 2 officer said last week. (See pictures of an Army town's struggle with PTSD...
...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...
...fellow investment banker Mark Sanford at a 1987 beach party in the Hamptons. They married two years later and soon returned to his home state of South Carolina, where he began a real estate business and the family grew to include four sons. (Read a two-minute bio of Mark Sanford...
...Chapur. Her demands that he cut ties with the woman went ignored; she later said revelations of his infamous trip to Argentina in June were like "punches to the gut." In August, she moved out of the governor's mansion with her children to the couple's home on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina...