Click Here to Read: The enemy within: Soldier suicides outpaced combat deaths in 2012 By Bill Briggs on the NBC News website on January 4, 2012.
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In an Oct. 10, 2012 photo, MaKayla Merritt holds her brother William Busbee’s uniform with her mother Libby Busbee, right, and sister Tiffany Merrit in the family’s living room in Panama City, Fla. U.S. Army Spc. William Busbee committed suicide in March of 2012. Busbee is one of 177 Army suicides in 2012 — more than the number of soldiers killed in combat for the year.