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The Last and Greatest Battle - Finding the Will, Commitment, and Strategy to End Military Suicides (Hardcover)
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The Last and Greatest Battle - Finding the Will, Commitment, and Strategy to End Military Suicides (Hardcover)
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A timely look at the epidemic of military suicide-and an assessment
of what can be done to prevent it. Nearly every day an active-duty
soldier in the United States military resorts to suicide, and
nearly every hour a veteran does the same. In recent years the
problem of military suicides has reached epidemic proportions, but
it's all too easy for most of us to gloss over the headlines or
tune out the details. In The Last and Greatest Battle-the first
book devoted exclusively to the problem of military suicides-John
Bateson brings this neglected crisis into the spotlight. Bateson,
the former executive director of a nationally certified suicide
prevention center, surveys the history of suicide in the United
States military from the Civil War to the present day and outlines
a plan to save lives-and ultimately end the tragedy of military
suicides. He uses the stories of individual soldiers to illuminate
the unique challenges faced by American troops today. Transitioning
from the front lines to the home front is difficult for many
service members, and many need help both during and after their
deployments. But even though the military is spending millions of
dollars on suicide prevention programs, record numbers of soldiers
continue to take their lives. To that end, Bateson outlines a plan
of action. If the military works to remove stigma, to make
treatment more effective and more accessible, and to limit risk
factors for suicide in the first place by taking measures like
reducing the number and length of deployments and adjusting
pre-deployment training to take into account the way that wars are
waged today, an end to the problem of military suicide is as
possible as it is essential.
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