The shooting that killed 13 people on a U.S. Army base in Texas has spurred the Obama administration to re-examine the stresses on a military force that has been at war for eight years, Bloomberg informs Nov. 7.

“For the first nine months of this year, the Army reported 117 suspected suicides among active-duty personnel, with 81 confirmed and 36 cases in which the cause of death hasn’t yet been determined. That compares with 103 suicides in the year- earlier period.

General George Casey, the U.S. Army chief of staff, said that the demands of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have ‘stretched’ the Army. Still, he said, ‘it’s way too early’ to say whether the shooting signals that the Army isn’t big enough to do the job being asked of it,” Bloomberg reads.

NEWS.am informed early that on Nov. 5, around 1:30 p.m. local time a gunman killed 12 and injured 31 at the U.S. largest military base in Fort Hood, 130 kilometers north of Austin (capital of Texas).