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  • "In 2010, we recognized that in several of our career fields — our security forces, our aircraft maintainers, our intel guys — that we had higher rates than the rest of the Air Force … So we implemented focus training for supervisors in those career fields," he said.

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  • "To date, none of the services have training on how to intervene and how to recognize symptoms in a virtual environment," Maj. McCarthy said, adding that the Air Force has commissioned the Rand Corp. to study how airmen are using social media.

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