Joint Chiefs chairman: Army suicides to hit record

By GottaLaff

I don't like posting things like this:

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, on Tuesday predicted that the Army will see a record number of suicides this year. [...]

"The suicide rate is exceptionally high," Mullen said, adding that the rate is up in all the military services, not just the Army. While he said that there is no "analytic data" yet showing that there is an "overwhelming correlation" between the stress of the military forces with multiple deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he "just can't believe that it is not very much related."

Gee, which president pushed that whole practice to the limit? Oh yeah:

Mullen said the military faced a "severe" shortage in mental health professionals and that Pentagon leaders are pressing to fill those gaps.

Heavy sigh.