Beyond the Front was featured again over the weekend, this time in the Daily Press:
His name is Spc. Kyle Norton, and his life is falling apart.
Norton is deployed in the Middle East. His wife-to-be has just ended their relationship via e-mail. He has money problems. A bad country-and-western song doesn’t even begin to describe his life.
Now he’s about to kill himself.
Norton isn’t real, but Army leaders hope that he helps curtail a real-world spike in suicides that grabbed the attention of top military brass and influential lawmakers.
Norton is a character in “Beyond the Front,” a combination feature film and computer game that will serve as a role-playing exercise for every Army soldier in the next 30 days. The Army has received 14,000 copies of the video for use during a month-long stand-down aimed at suicide prevention. The stand-down begins today.
You can read the full article here.
