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(AP) — Five killings this summer involving couples at Fort Bragg were prob ably due to existing marital problems and the stress of separation while soldiers are away on duty. Army investigators said Thursday. But the report also said military culture discour ages soldiers and their families from seeking help when domestic problems can potentially be resolved. Col. Dave Orman, a psychiatrist who led the 19-member team of investigators, said earlier interven tion could prevent future tragedies. To do that, Orman said, mental health specialists must be in combat battalions, as chaplains are now. “We’re not doing what we need to be doing yet,” he said. “There was a prevalent attitude that seeking behavioral health care was not career safe.” The team, including mental and physical health workers and military clergy, visited the base in August and September. The team also said the anti- malaria drug Lariam, given to troops sent overseas, was unlikely to have been at fault. Side effects of the We’re not doing what we need to be doing yet. There was a prei>alent attitiuie that seeking behav ioral health care was not career safe. Department study how increased militaiyoDai affect family stress. It also said distrust of family care ;uid mental health programs “n tribute in rare cases to tragedy.” It said foe J showed that marital discord wasn’t unusual ‘ Investigators interviewed military leaders. tors, leaders of family support groups, militar civilian law' enforcement, and civilian public officials. They also conducted groups with soldiers, spouses other people on the post. The report found family groups were inconsistent in the' they provided and the Array' gram for soldiers retumins deployment also varied frorai unit. Work inak aurice | packai .star to a pos .ason. he ick<\|s to is beingd®i [tionai rankin] ure each unit forms a fe |n. upport group when the« I in doing So, tor training in the lie L of the NO deploy States or overseas, said Col.M eo f 14k yard] Davis, garrison commander a fi L smau Trop |Bragg in' s single b Soldu rs from Fort Braggs [ ol an i v does headquarters of the 82nd Afe Division and the Army’s John F. KennedySpesa Oj‘; oU o lm School, have fistured ora,-si/ w Col. Dave Orman Psychiatrist 441 5 South Texas Ave. (next to Fajita Rita’s) 979-691-2551 Qrtxit Summer savings going on right now! I drug, also known as mefloquine, have been known to include psychotic episodes. Authorities say four Fort Bragg soldiers killed their wives in June and July. Two of the men com mitted suicide and the other two are charged with murder. Three of those cases involved Special Operations soldiers who had served in Afghanistan. In a fifth case, a woman is charged with killing her husband, a Special Forces major. The report recommended that the Defense Warfare Center and School, have figured prat nently in ground operations in Afghanistan. About 45,0CK) sokiic rs are stationed at FonBd and about 5.(KX) families live on base. Arte 21 .(XX) military families live in nearby commum Local police have said the couples invohtd each of the slayings had a history of mantalfri lems. After the slayings, the military announced soldiers will be screened for psychological^ lems before they leave Afghanistan Ho efer, lu ding ich require tool be gpBloc yet to decid tk has more thl FDA approves 20-minute HIV te ■?oo^ Got Maroon? NOVEMBER 9, 2002 TEXAS ASM vs. OKLAHOMA maroonout.tamu.edu l\l^ co ^ WASHINGTON (AP) — The government approved a new 20- minute HIV test on Thursday that promises to let more Americans than ever before learn on-the-spot if they’re infected with the AIDS virus. It’s not the first rapid HIV test: a 10-minute version has been sold since the mid-1990s, but was so difficult to use accurately that many health clinics abandoned it. Most of today’s routine HIV tests take days to provide results — and at least 8,000 people a year who test positive at public testing clinics never return to get the news. Federal AIDS experts called the new OraQuick test so easy to use that it should dramatically cut that number, helping thousands more people learn they’re infect ed so they can seek treatment — and quit spreading the disease. To use OraQuick, a health worker simply pricks a person’s finger, puts a spot of blood into a vial containing a developing solu tion, and then dips in the sticklike testing device. Reading the results is similar to reading common pregnancy tests: A single reddish line on the OraQuick dipstick means no HIV. Two reddish lines means the per son may be infected and needs a confirmatory test to be sure. The test detects antibodies to HIV, and scientific studies show it provides results with 99.6 percent accuracy, the Food and Drug Administration said in announcing Thursday’s approval. An easy rapid test has long been in demand: The military wants one simple enough for battlefield use. Obstetricians want to test women in labor BMXl gam N who don’t know their HlVsn tus so that babies of inW mothers can get immeta treatment that might keepta healthy. Hospitals wantafs way to tell whether tal workers exposed to bli HIV-infected patients be uiven anti-HIV medicaw And AIDS activists saji rapid test easy enough foiifi action-packed In social workers instes tku includes f health workers woM)i bdtiding pimp boon to increasing tk Jodies, acco n Ac c Enterta launch it: game BMX ability of HIV testing,prs larly in inner cities orf rural areas where access health clinics is limited. OraQuick may indeedpf that easy, but for now itcai* offered only by certified^ workers because of a f- hitch. 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