Dr. David R. Segal This is Me

 View all 1190 references Web References

1. 1. www.thehawkeye.com

   www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Vet-s - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/11/2008   Last Visited: 5/12/2008

   David Segal, professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, said suicide figures are difficult to compile."What if someone drives their car into an abutment?Is that a suicide?If they don't leave a suicide note, it's hard to tell.Most people who study suicide assume that whatever the figure is, it's an underestimation, for any group of people," Segal said.
   ...
   Segal, who directs the University of Maryland's Center for Research on Military Organization, said suicides among Iraq and Afghan vets are likely to rise rapidly as figures become available, given the high percentage facing post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries and the lack of universal screening of returning veterans.
   
   "We know that the incident of stress-related mental illness is very high, and stress-related mental illness is related to suicide.People think about committing suicide as a way of ending their pain, and some of them do it," Segal said.

2. 2. www.mysanantonio.com

   www.mysanantonio.com/news/metr - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/23/2008   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   "All of this is going to impact on the ability of the (Army) to perform the mission," University of Maryland military sociologist David Segal said.
   ...
   "Just on the basis of chance I would have expected to see one or two states go against the trend, and I'm just not seeing that here," said Segal, the University of Maryland military sociologist.
   ...
   "I don't think it's hollow yet, but that's the direction we're going in," Segal commented.

3. 3. www.stltoday.com

   www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/30/2007   Last Visited: 9/30/2007

   "You land in Iraq, and you're on the battlefield, whether you're a quartermaster or a medic or a cook," said David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organizations at the University of Maryland. "All you have to do is get on the highway to go somewhere from the airport."
   
   The military and lawmakers are only slowly coming to grips with the consequences, Segal said.
   
   "I think we have failed to recognize the extent of the problem," he said. "We've produced a problem that's going to be plaguing us for generations."
   
   Past wars, through the Persian Gulf war, produced three casualties for every fatality, while now in Iraq "we're up to about 16-to-1," Segal said. Those killed are "really the tip of the iceberg" as far as the toll on soldiers, he added.