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More bleak numbers on military suicides: The Army reports that a record-high 22 soldiers either killed themselves are or suspected of doing so at Fort Hood last year. The number is twice the figure from 2009, and the rate is more than double that of the same age group among civilians, reports USA Today. The rise comes amid ramped up psychiatric services in the wake of the shooting spree in November 2009 that left 13 people dead.
"It's like a chain reaction," the director of a soldiers' mental health clinic near the base tells the newspaper. "Being the front and back door to (Iraq and Afghanistan), on top of having had a massacre on post, we've got some pretty psychologically fragile folks."
