Around 22 US vets kill themselves every day.

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More than 6,000 veterans have killed themselves each year since 2008, according to the VA data. Veteran suicide rates increased 25.9% between 2005 and 2016, as suicide rates in the overall US population also increased


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/suicide-rate-young-us-veterans-jumps



Suicide is a major concern with veterans and active duty military members.
It’s especially shocking when viewing the suicide rates of active duty Army members. According to a research report in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal, the Army suicide rate increased 80% from 2004 to 2008

https://www.usveteransmagazine.com/2017/09/shocking-military-suicide-rates-identifying-signs/



Suicide rate of U.S. veterans rose one third since 2001: study

The report estimated that an average of 20 veterans a day died from suicide in 2014, or about 7,300 in the year, compared to a previous estimate of 22 a day. But researchers have cautioned against relying too heavily on that figure to indicate trends in suicides because it does not take into account that the overall number of veterans is declining because of deaths from old age.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...rose-one-third-since-2001-study-idUSKCN10E2RN



Suicides among Vietnam veterans have been said to be 50,000 to 100,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/07/opinion/l-how-many-suicides-by-vietnam-vets-841091.html
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Unbelievable statistics ?
I wonder if they'll show them to recruits for Izrael's planned war on Iran.

I wonder what the suicide rates are in countries that we've attacked and gutted ? There doesn't seem to be much information on that.
 
moon said:
Unbelievable statistics ?
I wonder if they'll show them to recruits for Izrael's planned war on Iran.

I wonder what the suicide rates are in countries that we've attacked and gutted ? There doesn't seem to be much information on that.
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I have to wonder what the cause is
 
moon said:
Unbelievable statistics ?
I wonder if they'll show them to recruits for Izrael's planned war on Iran.

I wonder what the suicide rates are in countries that we've attacked and gutted ? There doesn't seem to be much information on that.
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We? So now you are female and American?
 
kudzu said:
We? So now you are female and American?
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Only for today. Then I'm a Japanese hermaphrodite until Tuesday.

Isn't it grand that Truth is beyond gender and nationality, kudzu- our US pimpess for Saudi atrocities.
 
moon said:
Unbelievable statistics ?
I wonder if they'll show them to recruits for Izrael's planned war on Iran.

I wonder what the suicide rates are in countries that we've attacked and gutted ? There doesn't seem to be much information on that.
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Who cares, war is good for the Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class.
 
moon said:
Only for today. Then I'm a Japanese hermaphrodite until Tuesday.

Isn't it grand that Truth is beyond gender and nationality, kudzu- our US pimpess for Saudi atrocities.
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We would indicate that you are American.
 
katzgar said:
I have to wonder what the cause is
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Getting old mostly. The average age is like 59. An army study that looked just at their ranks since 9/11 found their number to be much lower and the ranks of those who never deployed into combat had a much higher number of suicides than those who had. There are other issues like the percentage of veterans to the percentage of non-veterans is growing so it is not clear if the rates are really disproportional to the population as a whole. The only thing clear is that they are mostly older people which is corroborated by the average age of those who call the hotlines being in the same age bracket by and large. Since this would put them around Gulf War Age and "PTSD" is the step-child of Gulf War Syndrome there may be some link to that particular war. Otherwise it would have to be the age thing.
 
Kacper said:
Getting old mostly. The average age is like 59. An army study that looked just at their ranks since 9/11 found their number to be much lower and the ranks of those who never deployed into combat had a much higher number of suicides than those who had. There are other issues like the percentage of veterans to the percentage of non-veterans is growing so it is not clear if the rates are really disproportional to the population as a whole. The only thing clear is that they are mostly older people which is corroborated by the average age of those who call the hotlines being in the same age bracket by and large. Since this would put them around Gulf War Age and "PTSD" is the step-child of Gulf War Syndrome there may be some link to that particular war. Otherwise it would have to be the age thing.
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If non deployed have higher suicide rates the PSTD thing doesnt seem to fit.
 
katzgar said:
If non deployed have higher suicide rates the PSTD thing doesnt seem to fit.
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If you ignore that a lot of people are claiming that successfully without going downrange because of the stress of their job. We seem to have gone from nobody really has PTSD to everybody has PTSD for political reasons. At the end of the day, the suicide rates thing is something they are having trouble triangulating on. Part of it is that there is so much attached to the 22 number (which was really 18-22 a day) when the methodology in arriving at it was a little sketchy. They took a relatively handful of states to come up with a number, and then applied the number to the whole country. Could be higher in reality. Could be lower. Suicide rates are not as widely and easily discernible as you might would think. Unless it is an obvious suicide by firearm or hanging, the other ones may be hard to detect and classified as accidental overdoses or traffic accidents.
 
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