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Troubled soldiers' treatment criticized: (USATODAY)
July 13, 2009
Army commanders are failing at the day-to-day task of monitoring troubled young soldiers in their barracks back home, which is helping push suicides to record numbers, the head of the Army's suicide task force says.The Army has built a fighting force second to none, says Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire, but "we have young leaders who have not been trained in the art of ... just taking care of soldiers," particularly after they return home from combat. [click here to view] (http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090713/1asuicide13_st.art.htm)
