Suicide surpassed war as the military's leading cause of death

[nitpicker]

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141103/NEWS/311030022/Suicide-surpassed-war-military-s-leading-cause-death

Suicide surpassed war as the military's leading cause of death
Nov. 3, 2014 - 06:43AM |

By Greg Zoroya
USA Today

War was the leading cause of death in the military nearly every year between 2004 and 2011 until suicides became the top means of dying for troops in 2012 and 2013, according to a bar chart published this week in a monthly Pentagon medical statistical analysis journal.

For those last two years, suicide outranked war, cancer, heart disease, homicide, transportation accidents and other causes as the leading killer, accounting for about three in 10 military deaths each of those two years.
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More than 6,800 troops have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 and more than 3,000 additional service members have taken their lives in that same time, according to Pentagon data.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Just a day or two ago, I read some stats

that showed military suicides had almost tripled since 2008.

[bemildred]

2. War sucks, War has always sucked. But now it really sucks. nt