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COMMENTS: Self-Inflicted Wounds
Combat with the enemy was less deadly than a soldier's own hand during the month of January, NBC's Ron Mott reported from Fort Benning. The death toll for the USArmy in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was smaller than the 24 soldiers who committed suicide, "the most in a single month since the army started keeping track nearly 30 years ago." The story of the failures of the army's mental health system has been owned by CBS' Armen Keteyian last year. Mott's contribution was to point to a trio of factors: a shortfall in suicide prevention monitoring; long deployments overseas; and strained relationships at home.
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