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quote:Originally posted by tony6789http://jennings.noacsc.org/
quote:A teenage soldier who killed himself because he feared having to shoot child suicide bombers has been buried. Jason Chelsea, 19, a Kings, Lancashire and Border Regiment infantryman, died four days after taking an overdose. Shortly after taking the overdose, he told his parents that as part of training for Iraq he had been warned he might have to shoot children. Earlier this month the MoD released figures showing 1,541 soldiers who served in Iraq are suffering from psychiatric illness. Last year, 727 cases were recorded, amounting to nearly 10% of the British deployment.