Army Suicides Increase Each Year

The US Army recently released the statistics for 2008 of numbers of army suicides. Since 2004 the numbers have been increasing to now 128 active duty soldiers and 43 non-active duty soldiers. These 2008 numbers correspond to a suicide rate of 20 per 100,000 personnel. If you look at the suicide rate of the US population, it works out to roughly 19.2 per 100,000 people in 2005. Here are the numbers for the past five years. These figures do not include soldiers who left service, however the Department of Veterans Affairs reported 254 suicides of veterans across all military services...