Military suicides

Rise in military suicides is baffling

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:41:28 GMT

Source: jacksonville.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
A recent rise of suicides in the Military is frustrating. The rate has risen from 10.3 per 100,000 troops in 2002 to more than 18 per 100,000 today. suicides among active duty troops hit a record of 350 in 2012. The causes are mysterious, reported The New York Times. The increase is setting records despite a withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. For instance, 80 percent of those committing suicide did not see combat, while half were not even deployed. A variety of factors seem involved in Military suicides. read more ...

Majority of Military Suicides Never Saw Combat

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Source: www.military.com --- Monday, June 17, 2013
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Deployment to war doesn’t figure in majority of military suicides

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:51:04 GMT

Source: inlandsocal.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Latest stats show 52% who killed themselves in 2008-11 weren’t in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some experts say many recruits bring mental health issues with them. Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. Readmoreabout Deployment to war doesn’t figure in majority of Military suicides ...

Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:12:05 GMT

Source: www.latimes.com --- Sunday, June 16, 2013
Latest stats show 52% who killed themselves in 2008-11 weren't in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some experts say many recruits bring mental health issues with them. Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. ...

Stats Show War Has Nothing To Do With Majority Of Military Suicides – 86% Never Saw Combat

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:39:51 GMT

Source: patdollard.com --- Saturday, June 15, 2013
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times : Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a medic in the Navy Reserve and was assigned to a Marine company. “He wanted in the trenches,” said his wife, Catherine Evans. To her relief, he never deployed to either war. But that did not save him. Evans, 28, committed suicide last November near his home outside Salt Lake City — one of at least 524 U.S. service members who took their own lives in 2012. His case was hardly unusual. The most recent Pentagon data show that a slight majority — 52% — of troops who have committed suicide while on active duty were never assigned to Afghanistan or Iraq. The numbers, from the years 2008 to 2011, upend the popular belief that a large increase in suicides over the last decade stems from the psychological toll of combat and repeated deployments to war. To researchers trying to unravel the causes of the rise, the statistics suggest that the mental health and life circumstances of new recruits are at least as important — and possibly more so — than the pressures of being in the Military. It is clear that some enter with a predisposition to suicide and that stressors other than war are pushing them over the edge, experts said. “A lot of the risk for suicide in ...

Letters: Military suicides relate to moral decay

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:07:00 GMT

Source: visaliatimesdelta.com --- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The quote Psalms 94:18-23 — 'When I said, 'My foot slippeth,' thy mercy, O Jehovah, held me up,' — relates to recent news of a serious spike in suicides in our Military. ...

The sad truth about military suicides

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:36:33 GMT

Source: woundedtimes.blogspot.com --- Friday, June 07, 2013
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Sen. Donnelly working to reduce military suicides

Fri, 31 May 2013 16:02:15 GMT

Source: www.therepublic.com --- Friday, May 31, 2013
When Shawn Richards returned home in 2010 from a one-year deployment to Iraq, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, had trouble sleeping because of nightmares and experienced fits of road rage. ...

Bill to help curb military suicides

Thu, 30 May 2013 22:11:43 GMT

Source: www.wishtv.com --- Thursday, May 30, 2013
Senator Joe Donnelly is traveling the state speaking with veterans, active service members, and health officials hoping to find a way to curb Military suicides. ...