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2, 2010, http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article9030 .
    Nasuti, “American Military Burn Pits Pose Risk to Future Generations of Afghans (Part 3 of 3),”
Kabul Press
, May 4, 2010, http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article9421 .
    US Government Accountability Office,
Afghanistan and Iraq: DOD Should Improve Adherence to Its Guidance on Open Pit Burning and Solid Waste Management
, October 2010, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1163.pdf .
    Christine Parthemore, “Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and US Ground Forces” (working paper, Center for a New American Security, April 2010), http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/Promoting_Dialogue_Climate-Change&GroundForces_Parthemore_April2010_code408_workingpaper.pdf .
    “Afghan Civilian Killings at Record Level,”
Democracy Now!
, February 28, 2011, http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/28/headlines#8 .
    Amanda Terkel, “Afghan Civilian Deaths Hit Record Levels in 2010,”
Huffington Post
, February 1, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/afghan-civilian-deaths-record-levels-2010_n_816813.html .
    ARM Annual Report: Civilian Casualties of War, January–December 2010
, Afghanistan Rights Monitor, February 1, 2011, http://www.arm.org.af/file.php?id=4 .
    Student Researchers: Karen Kniel, Josh Crockett, Ana Elliott, and Amy Ortiz (Sonoma State University); Joan Pedro and Luis Luján (Complutense University of Madrid)
    Faculty Evaluators: Peter Phillips, Heather Flynn, and Jim Preston (Sonoma State University); Dr. Ana I. Segovia (Complutense University of Madrid)
    F or the second year in a row, the year ending 2010, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat, reported Cord Jefferson on January 27, 2011. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide. Veterans who, after serving, suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are also at high risk. The study showed that 47 percent of veterans with PTSD had thoughts of suicide before they found help. The internal anguish a soldier experiences after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can be far more severe than that experienced during live external combat.
    More than two million troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Those who do return often suffer from physical, psychological, and cognitive trauma. More than 40 per 100,000 men from the ages of 20 to 24 take their lives each year. Some deaths, which are not counted in these statistics, are due to driving while under the influence of alcohol consumed due to depression. In 2008, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were 75 percent more likely to die in a car accident and 148 percent more likely to die in a motorcycle accident. By making the calculations of 40 per 100,000 per year, the numbers of veteran suicides reaches into the tens of thousands nationwide since the beginning of the 9/11 wars.
    In 2009, there were 381 military personnel suicides, a number that also exceeded the number of combat deaths. While the military has acknowledged an increase in suicides for some years, the corporate media tends to downplay the seriousness of these deaths by pointing to improvements and blaming the victims themselves.
USA Today
reporter Gregg Zoroya wrote on July 29, 2010, “After nine years of war, the Army attracts recruits ready for combat but inclined toward risky personal behavior. It’s a volatile mix that led to more deaths from suicide, drug overdoses and drinking and driving than from warfare, an Army review concludes.” 1
    Zoroya followed up half a year later: “The Marine Corps reported a decline in suicides from 52 in 2009 to 37 confirmed or suspected cases in 2010. Among active-duty Army soldiers, there were 156 potential suicides in 2010, down slightly from 162 in 2009.” 2
    In his
Truthdig
article “Death and After in Iraq,” Chris Hedges quoted former mortuary unit marine Jess Goodell: “War is disgusting and horrific.… It never leaves the people who were involved in it.