Military Suicides Grow At Sharp Rate -- CBS News
(CBS News) One suicide a day. That is the rate of U.S. military personnel taking their own lives just since the first of this year -- more troops lost to suicide than died in combat. It's a sharp increase over last year and it's caught the attention of the Pentagon.
The war in Iraq is over and the war in Afghanistan is winding down, but the pace of military suicides is actually increasing to a record level. Pentagon figures show that as of this past Monday, 154 service members had taken their lives so far in 2012 -- an average of more than one a day and much higher than the 138 killed so far this year in Afghanistan.
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More News On The Alarming Increase In U.S. Military Suicides
Suicides Surge Among US Troops -- ABC News/APU.S. Military Suicides in 2012: 155 Days, 154 Dead -- Time
U.S. Troop Suicides Surging -- Slate
Armed Forces Troop Suicides Reach One Per Day -- Inquisitr
Suicides in US military at 10-year high with 154 cases reported in 155 days -- ANI
Suicide has killed more troops than the war in Afghanistan this year -- Government Executive
MILITARY: Five Marine suicides reported in May -- North County Times
My Comment: My Godfather .... who served on the Russian front during World War II .... committed suicide 18 years after the war ended .... a suicide that everyone in my family always believed was war related. Even my father .... who also served in the Second World War .... suffered nightmares and PTSD symptoms 30 - 40 - 50 years after the end of the war. Bottom line .... the psychological wounds of war will be with our veterans for a very long time .... and the suicide rate will unfortunately continue to escalate.
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