Pentagon: Army Active Service Suicides Jump 46% Compared To Last Year. More Have Died Of Suicide Than Covid Since The Start

Fox News ^ | 10/1/21 | Andrew Mark Miller and Lucas Y Tomlinson

[Enlightened1]

Suicides in the U.S. Army's active-duty forces jumped 46-percent last quarter compared to the same period last year, according to a new suicide report from the Pentagon. 

In Q2 of 2021, 60 active-duty U.S. Army personnel members lost their lives to suicide compared to 41 the previous year. 

 

Pentagon: 46% spike in suicide among U.S.

Army’s active-duty forces in Q2 compared to

same period last year

 

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1448246020572385284

Additionally, the number of U.S. military personnel both active and reserve who died from suicide in Q2 of 2021 was 139 compared to 130 during the same period last year.

Comparatively, the total number of military personnel who have died from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic stands at 67.

Last month, the military released figures showing that suicides in the armed forces jumped by 15% last year, fueled by significant increases in the Army and Marine Corps that senior leaders called troubling. They urged more effort to reverse the trend.

According to data, there were 580 suicides last year compared with 504 the prior year. Of those, the number of suicides by Army National Guard troops jumped by about 35%, from 76 in 2019 to 103 last year, and the active-duty Army saw a nearly 20% rise. Marine Corps suicides went up by more than 30%, from 47 to 62; while the Marine Corps Reserves went from nine deaths to 10.

"The findings are troubling," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. "Suicide rates among our service members and military families are still too high, and the trends are not going in the right direction."

[JoSixChip]

How many were lgbt? When you bring the mentally unstable, mentally unstable things happen.

[suthener]

I’m sure that forcing them to choose between taking a medication which they adamantly don’t want, or losing their careers, is going to help.

[Red6]

Good point.

[Red6]

As is the disaster caused by the rapid withdraw from Afghanistan and mission failure, after investing billions, thousands of lives, and tens of millions of manhous in sweat and sacrifices.

[13foxtrot]

It might help if they stopped the asinine multi-month training rotations that destroy families.

And since the Army is in peace-time mode, the bullshit is really starting to ramping up.

Reddit users can take a peek into r/Army to get a sense of the crap our soldiers are dealing with on a daily basis. (Especially at Ft Hood)

[CatOwner]

The left is fine either way. Take the jab or kill yourself. They want as little dissension as possible within the military, from the leaders on down, when they enforce their control over the American people.

[Grimmy]

I suspect some, if not most, of these “suicides” are death-jab kills.

[gloryblaze]

Speaking of Ft. Hood:

https://www.kwtx.com/2021/10/12/fort-hood-identifies-soldier-found-dead-behind-company-barracks/

[TnTnTn]

Horrible leadership and/or lack of it in upper echelons…woke military…insane…

[Paddy Irish]

I think one thing overlooked is that some of our Army bases have become gang infested crap holes. Fort Hood is an example. The Commanders are being politically correct while gang members prey on kids that joined for all the right reasons.

[Vaduz]

Drugs ? what’s the od count ?.

[Sequoyah101]

and they blame it on anything but the truth.

The truth is that it sucks to be in the military for this regime.

[13foxtrot]

Sad. (I read about this case before I made my previous post - before his identity was released.)