From the Killeen paper

Seventeen Army recruiters have committed suicide nationwide since 2001, but four of them were from the Houston Recruiting Battalion, which recruits soldiers from East Texas. A fifth Houston-area soldier killed himself, but he was assigned to the Army's Future Soldier Training Program.

There are 38 recruiting battalions nationwide with 8,400 recruiters.

The Army's suicide rate has been climbing as the war in Iraq has forced multiple and longer deployments.

Last year, the Army's suicide rate was 18.1 per 100,000, the highest since the service started keeping records in 1980. That's still lower than the U.S. civilian rate of 19.5 per 100,000.