Camp Lejeune continues battle against troop suicide

19.05.12

A 21-year-old sergeant with three years of service and a single tour in Afghanistan dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. A 27-year-old Marine sergeant from New River Air Station completes two deployments in Iraq and re-enlists, then takes his own life with a handgun, leaving behind a wife and two children. A month-and-a-half into 2012, Camp Lejeune has lost two of its active-duty Marines to suicide. Andrew Martin, suicide prevention manager for Marine and Family Programs. These are three of the seven local troops who died by their own hand in 2011, five of them within Onslow County or aboard Camp Lejeune. A 19-year-old Camp Lejeune artilleryman with a fiancée hangs himself. No one base is overrepresented in suicides, looking back several years,&rdquo. age groups, all the ranks, gender, ethnicity, married or not married. Spread across a base of more than 50,000 troops, the numbers are small making it difficult to determine if preventative measures are working, or even where to focus assistance, said Navy Lt. Cmdr.

Source: Jacksonville Daily News

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” These units offer free Internet access and phone service to service members deployed to remote locations in Afghanistan. Cheetahs come equipped with up to eight laptops, phones and a router to provide service members free, swift Internet access and crystal-clear Web or phone calls home. Wesley Johnson, left, and Robert Brown, both of the 1st Marine Logistics Group Exchange Detachment, set up a satellite dish for a morale satellite unit nicknamed the “Cheetah. “When it was broken out, it was like Christmas morning,” one deployed Marine said of the satellite unit. To remedy that, officials are racing portable satellite units, nicknamed “Cheetahs,” to forward-deployed troops in the farthest reaches of Afghanistan....

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