The pilot program is being instituted after 2012 saw the highest number of U.S. military suicides -- 349 -- ever recorded in a single calendar year, as AP reported. Last year, the number of active- and reserve-duty personnel who took their own lives surpassed the number who were killed in combat in Afghanistan, 295.
Experts have blamed the surge in military suicides in part on two long, controversial wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and in part on high levels of untreated depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other factors.
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'We have doctors, counselors, behavioral-health scientists, all sorts of people to get help for Marines who have exhibited stress-type symptoms, but what can we do before that happens? How do we armor Marines up so they are capable of handling stress?' Jeffery Bearor, the executive deputy of the Marine Corps training and education command at its headquarters in Quantico, Va., asked AP rhetorically.
Bearor indicated this type of training may increase decision-making capabilities.
'If indeed that proves to be the case, then it's our intention to turn this into a training program where Marines train Marines in these techniques,' Bearor said. 'We would interject this into the entry-level training pipeline ... so every Marine would be trained in these techniques.'"
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