The suicide rate among active-duty soldiers hit an all-time high in 2011. But there are signs that rates among reservists and members of the National Guard are stabilizing after years of steady increase.
These findings are in a new US Army study. Efforts to confront suicide, says Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who shepherded the report as the Army’s second-highest-ranking officer, have produced some encouraging successes. He says he is hopeful that “we’ve at least arrested this problem and hopefully will start to push it down.”
I have to wonder if these rates of suicide and substance abuse have to do with the reality that once "in country", many of these American military come to a clear realization that in these wars of aggression, the US is not on the right side of history.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/0120/Army-report-Suicide-rate-sets-record-some-alcohol-abuse-up-54-percent
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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