As a result of the menacing inhumane crimes of rogue members of the now notorious private security contractors like Blackwater, DynCorp International and ArmorGroup North America, legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives late last month that would remove private contractors in war zones.
As a result of the menacing inhumane crimes of rogue members of the now notorious private security contractors like Blackwater, DynCorp International and ArmorGroup North America, legislation was introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives late last month that would remove private contractors in war zones.
According to CENTCOM, the soldiers [Americans, who were killed earlier in February in Pakistan were classified] as “civil affairs” trainers... specifically for Pakistani Special Operations Forces and their Frontier Corps to make them a more effective counter-insurgency force.”
According to CENTCOM, the soldiers [Americans, who were killed earlier in February in Pakistan were classified] as “civil affairs” trainers... specifically for Pakistani Special Operations Forces and their Frontier Corps to make them a more effective counter-insurgency force.”
The Army, National Guard and Army Reserve lost at least 211 personnel to suicide. More than half of those who took their lives had served in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 personnel is higher than that registered among males aged 19 to 29, the gender age bracket with the highest rate among the general population. Before 2001, the Army rarely suffered 10 suicides per 100,000 soldiers.
American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. While a final figure is not available, the toll of military suicides last year was the worst since records began to be kept in 1980.
