Army Grapples with “Epidemic” of Suicides

[arcadian]

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/04/army_suicides.html

The U.S. Army is still struggling to come to grips with the unusually high rate of suicide within its ranks.

“The Army ratios are above the national average and in some months recently, there have been more suicides in the Army than combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan,” observed Nancy Youssef of McClatchy News last week. “There is no pattern to suicides. One third who commit suicide have never served in combat; another third commit suicide while in combat; and yet another third do it once they return, according to Army statistics.”

Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh issued two directives on March 26 that are intended to further an understanding of the problem and to improve the availability of information to surviving family members.


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[Missy Vixen]

1. K&R for the lost

and for the families that continue to suffer, every day of their lives.

[leftstreet]

2. K&R

[Lorien]

3. Statistics:

The Army set a record for suicides last year, with 160 possible cases among active-duty GIs, 140 of which were confirmed. Eighty-two cases were logged for reservists, with 74 confirmed suicides, as the Army did the bulk of the fighting overseas.

[G_j]

7. Be all that you can be?

:cry:

[arcadian]

4. morning kick

[Xenotime]

5. what kind of brainwashing does the army do to force people to these ends?!?

So sad to read about the suffering.

[L0oniX]

6. Maybe some can't live with what they have done to the innocent.

[Xenotime]

8. Interesting.