Study disputes link between combat and suicide
Posted: August 6, 2013 - 6:08pm
A U.S. soldier walks atop his armored vehicle at sunset as he prepares for a nighttime military exercise in the Kuwaiti desert south of the Iraqi border on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2002. Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about war’s effects on the psyche published Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
CHICAGO (AP) — Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that...

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