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February 5, 2009

Canadian live-fire

The Canadian army’s Light Armored Vehicle III fires a round from its 25 mm cannon during a combined-arms live-fire exercise Jan. 26 at Range 50 on Doña Ana Range Complex, N.M. The Canadian army has been training at Doña Ana for nearly a month and is slated to head back to Quebec this week before deploying to Afghanistan sometime in March or April. Photo by Stephen Baack.

‘ASIST program helps’
Bliss chaplain says intervention program key to
curbing rising suicide rate

Virginia Reza

Monitor Staff

“If death comes to your doorstep, do you answer or not?” asked Chaplain (Maj.) Paul Blundell, Fort Bliss family life chaplain, during an interview Monday. 

“Obviously, somebody refused to answer 128 times last year,” he said, referring to the recent suicide data released by the Army.      

“It’s time to quit playing around and patting ourselves on the back for playing silly little games like ACE,” said Blundell, referring to the Act, Care and Escort your Buddy card, which is given to Soldiers at countless Army suicide prevention classes. The training consists of lengthy presentations in Soldier-packed auditoriums where less than half of the servicemembers pay attention, he said.  

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