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Suicide and soldiers
11 Dec 2023 at The National Pulse: Suicide Is Consistently Killing More U.S. Soldiers Than Anything Else, Including War.
Suicide accounted for just under 40 percent of United States active military deaths as of December 2022, according to the Defense Casualty Analysis System, which found that U.S. military suicide rates have dramatically increased over the past several decades.
Indeed, the current leading cause of death among servicemen is currently categorized as “self-inflicted,” with a total of 333 incidents last year. Suicide was recorded as almost ten percent higher in prevalence than accidents, of which there were 265.
If one goes to the reporting system, there were a total of 844 deaths (from anything) for 1,299,150 active duty members and 90,346 full-time National Guard members.
That translates to a death rate of 60.7 per 100,000. That’s all-cause.
Going to “self-inflicted”, that’s 333 deaths, and out of that many people, that translates to a rate of 24.0 per 100,000.
Going to my recent post on men’s trends of suicide by age in the U.S.:
Focusing solely on younger men:
A rate of 24.0 per 100,000 is actually lower than men’s rates in 2022, for ages 25 - 64 years old …. but this is just men alone.
Obviously, the numbers being reported for the armed forces include women as well. I just don’t know what the gender mix is.
They are correct that the trend is bad, though. It just happens to be bad for the outside population as well.
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