Posted on 06/13/2015 7:04:39 PM PDT by QT3.14
New government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women, a startling finding that experts say poses disturbing questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who serve in the armed forces.
Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a finding that surprised researchers because men generally are far more likely than women to commit suicide.
"It's staggering," said Dr. Matthew Miller, an epidemiologist and suicide expert at Northeastern University who was not involved in the research. "We have to come to grips with why the rates are so obscenely high."
Though suicide has become a major issue for the military over the last decade, most research by the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department has focused on men, who account for more than 90 percent of the nation's 22 million former troops. Little has been known about female veteran suicide.
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I think they could seriously work together to find better solutions than psychologists and social workers. It doesn’t matter what their rank was. They have patriotic hearts and would work to find an answer IMO. I think they would end up agreeing with me.
If they come back at you about percentages, then they are obviously arguing at how much loss in quality we can absorb, before it costs us too many lives, or even lost battles, and the possibility of losing the war, which could mean the end of our nation in a major war.
History isn’t over yet, we may have major wars again, wars in which losing means we become a part of a conquering force or empire.
That was the situation as recent as the 1980s, and it will exist again at some point.
Many americans have started to think of war as just an activity that our military does, with no real meaning, with no important results, or effects, and that it is always small, and “out there” somewhere, a long way off, that it is nothing that can decide our actual survival, or, that our survival will ever be in question.
Are the non veterans also 18 to 29?
What’s it matter?
According to Military.com a substantially greater number veterans are taking themselves out as opposed to non-vets.
No matter how anyone spins this, it’s not good.
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