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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3. Juni 2005 / Time Line June 3, 2005
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Wreath For Those Killed, Even At Their Own Hands
By Scott Shane, New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 2 - According to the Pentagon, 40 soldiers in Iraq
and seven others in Afghanistan have killed themselves, and 21
marines have committed suicide either in the region or while on
active duty in the United States.
The numbers do not include suicides that occurred after discharge.
Veterans' advocates have identified more than 30 such cases from
news accounts but say the total may be considerably higher.
Some military health experts say they believe the surreptitious
threat from suicide bombers and snipers in Iraq is even more
stressful than open combat. Through the end of April, 1,118 Army
men and women had been evacuated from Iraq for psychiatric reasons,
according to official statistics.
Through February, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs,
12,020 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan had been treated for
post-traumatic stress disorder.
06/04/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of
Defense
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Mass., was awarded on June 2,
2005, a $7,632,000 increment as part of a $126,672,195
cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, and time and materials
contract for a further development of an initial architecture for
the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical Communication System.
Work will be performed in Taunton, Mass. (75 percent) and
Gaithersburg, Md. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by
Jan. 9, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited
via the World Wide Web on April 8, 2002, and three bids were
received. The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort
Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (DAAB07-02-C-F404).
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