Defense Secretary wants to break new ground understanding the human mind [View all]
Just when you thought he was breaking new ground figuring out ways to secretly drone people and how to spend more on weapons and such, we learn he wants to get into our minds.
Hide the kids, get in the storm cellar.
Yes, suicide is a very serious problem, but can we really trust this guy's motives? Seems it's a plan to say that a decade plus of war isn't to blame - that non-military people kill themselves too. sorry, but I just don't trust the guy...
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday promised a new focus on suicide prevention by military leaders, not just to benefit troops and veterans but also the country as a whole.
“My long-term goal is for the Department of Defense to be a game-changing innovator in this field,” he said during remarks at an annual interagency suicide prevention conference. “Just as we helped foster the jet age, the space race and the Internet, I want us to break new ground in understanding the human mind.”
Panetta was the third Cabinet official to speak at the three-day conference, designed to bring the nation’s top mental health experts together to discuss research and solutions to the growing problem of military and veterans suicides.
But officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Pentagon framed the problem not simply as an outgrowth from a decade of war but also as a serious national mental health crisis.
http://www.stripes.com/news/panetta-suicide-problem-goes-far-beyond-combat-veterans-1.181079
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