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Fort Drum calls for more psychiatrists to help deal with stresses of Iraq war

Hart Seely, the Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)

It’s not every day that a fellow stands up in public and asks for a shrink.

Wednesday, Roger Ambrose said he’d take a dozen.

“We need to get psychiatrists to come to the North Country,” said Ambrose, director…

Stuck on stop-loss

Michelle Tan, Army Times (subscription required)

Army not expected to ease policy before fall 2009

Bush embraces halt in U.S. troop withdrawals

Richard Wolf, USA Today

WASHINGTON — President Bush’s decision Thursday to give his top commander in Iraq “all the time he needs” before proposing any further troop reductions sets up a battle later this month over the next $108 billion funding…

Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months

Peter Baker and Jonathan Weisman, the Washington Post

President Supports Suspending Pullout Of Forces in Iraq

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Bobby Muller’s Statement On President Bush’s 12 Month Tour Announcement

“There is no longer any doubt that the consistent churning of our military for extended periods of time is having a devastating effect on the health of our Soldiers.

An announcement from President Bush that we will not return to 12-month…

Iraq vets suffer mental health woes

Samuel Loewenberg, the Politico

A week before Army Gen. David Petraeus updates Congress on the war in Iraq, two new studies have found that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from especially high rates of post-combat psychological problems, exacerbated by…

Fort Drum Prints Photos After Arrests for D.W.I.

Lisa W. Foderaro, the New York Times

The Fort Drum Blizzard, the weekly newspaper for the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, is the place soldiers usually turn for stories about new wartime missions, community events and classified ads.

But this week, the…

Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags

Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel, the Hartford Courant (Connecticut)

Few Are Ordered, Despite Pressure From Congress

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Fort Drum Fights Substance Abuse

William Kates, the Associated Press

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) — Upset with an increase in the number of its soldiers using illegal drugs and being arrested for alcohol-related offenses, Fort Drum plans to publish the names and photos of alleged offenders…

Troop Depression on Rise in Afghanistan

Pauline Jelinek, the Associated Press

U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.

And in a recurring theme for a force strained by its…