{"id":68176,"date":"2016-09-27T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68176"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:58:38","slug":"suicide-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68176","title":{"rendered":"Suicide news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this year<\/a>, we talked about Air Force Colonel Eugene Marcus Caughey who was removed from his office as the vice commander of the 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base because of charges he faced of rape, assault and adultery. His court martial was scheduled to begin on October 17th, until this news this weekend<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Sgt. Tim Stankey, the spokesman for the Colorado Springs Police Department, said officers were dispatched after receiving a report of an apparent suicide. Stankey said investigators are waiting for information from the coroner to help determine the cause of Caughey’s death, but that there is no indication his death was a homicide. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of suicide, Bobo sends us a link from the New York Daily News<\/a> which claims that one third of calls to the Veterans’ Affairs Suicide hotline go unanswered because of lazy staff;<\/p>\n

Some hotline workers handle fewer than five calls per day and leave before their shifts end, even as crisis calls have increased sharply in recent years, said Greg Hughes, the former director of the VA’s Veterans Crisis Line. Hughes said in an internal email that some crisis line staffers “spend very little time on the phone or engaged in assigned productive activity.” Coverage at the crisis line suffers “because we have staff who routinely request to leave early,” he said.<\/p>\n

An average of 35 to 40 percent of crisis calls received in May rolled over to back-up centers where workers have less training to deal with veterans’ problems, Hughes said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’m not saying that Colonel Caughey called the VA hotline, but the odds are, if he did, he probably wouldn’t have got the help he needed anyway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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