Armed Forces, Thirty: "Cutting Military Chaplains to Save 3 Million People Too Many Suicides? Yes, Soldiers Ask for Help"

A cut military chaplains which will lead to savings of 3 million euros every year and one "Strong commitment" to prevent I suicide in Armed forces because "an organization in which the use of weapons is part of normal operations must be more responsible" in the understanding of "warning signs". Elisabetta Trenta puts two new projects on the plate Department of Defense, having announced a technical table to study all cases of military casualties fromdepleted uranium.

The question of military chaplains is one of the "Revision necessary" of the system also on the basis of "an agreement signed between the state and the government Vatican let's move on to a review of the order of the military chaplains, which includes a organic cut and one reduction of economic treatment economy, which, according to our estimates, is expected to reach nearly € 3 million a year ", explains the Minister of Defense in an interview withAdnkronos. The project plans to reduce by approximately 25% the staff of about 200 chaplains currently in service in Italian barracks. "The competent offices, at the initiative of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in charge of the file, evaluate – explains the minister – the legal rules that can be used to implement the agreement as soon as possible".

The novelty announced by the Trenta provoked the reaction of the Vicar General of the Military Ordinariate of Italy, Monsignor Angelo Frigerio, who pointed out that "today military chaplains are 140 " against an expected workforce of 204therefore with an understaffing of 64 units. "From 2012 to date, the savings represent about 30 chaplains a year – he explained – in 2018, unlike what was counted, military chaplains cost 5 million euros in the state, not nine million ".

The Defense is also preparing a delicate job in the barrack for the prevention suicides. "I asked for a strong commitment – says Trenta – I know very well that a lot of suicides (why call them self-mutilation?) Are related to experiences of personal embarrbadment and familiar, but it's not an excuse to say that "suicides in the armed forces are normal." "Also because" an organization in which the use of arms this is part of the normal operation must be more responsible and more able to seize those alarm signalsif it exists, it could help us prevent a phenomenon that 2018, also leads increase".

Insights, says Trenta, was entrusted to a special commission. But the defense holder goes further and explains that soldiers who need help "must be rebadured that they are asking for it psychological badistance it will not create them automatically career problems and that a well-done recovery path can make them even more elastic stronger at the service of the operational need "and calls for the establishment – in the context of a cultural and regulatory change – of a" constant service of oversight possible cases, that is to say of all the soldiers who may have been involved in accidents, attacks, Earthquakes and events of public calamity ".