I fail to see what good this is going
to do if the suicide problem has already
been found out to be people placed in
jobs they hated, personal relationships
failing while on deployment, and multiple
deployments one after another wrecking
families. Leave it to Army disconnect
to come up with a solution that has
nothing to do with the problem!!


Feb 20, 8:09 PM EST


Texas Army recruiters get new command after deaths

By RICH MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) -- An Army recruiting battalion in which four soldiers committed suicide has been placed under new leadership, a brigadier general assigned to investigate the deaths said Friday.

Brig. Gen. Frank Turner said the deaths of four members of the Houston Recruiting Battalion were the result of a number of factors, but that some of the command's practices were outside Army regulation.

"Some of the leadership practices occurring here in Houston by a couple of individuals - not all but a couple - were clearly outside the acceptable practices of leadership inside the Army," Turner said.

He said the new leadership would be reviewed by June.

Some soldiers and their family members had complained that recruiters, already subject to long hours and pressure to meet quotas, were threatened and humiliated when they failed in trying to fill an all-volunteer Army at war while isolated from other soldiers and support systems.

The recruiting command held a special training last week.

The four soldiers, all combat veterans, committed suicide between 2005 and 2008. There have been 16 suicides among recruiters since 2003.

The deaths came amid an increase in the Army's suicide rates during each of the last four years.


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