Army suicides at highest level in a year

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Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- May was the worst month in a year for suicides and potential suicides in the active-duty Army, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

The Army reported 21 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers in May. One of them has been confirmed; the other 20 are under investigation. In the past, most of the cases investigated were confirmed to be suicides.

May's number was the highest for one month since June 2010, which at the time was the worst month in recent memory for Army suicides.

There were also 21 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers in June 2010, but that month also saw 11 potential suicides among the Guard and Reserves. Last month, there were six potential suicides in the National Guard and Reserves, so June 2010 remains worse.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/16/army.suicides/index.html

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1. If I may be permitted to ask, were these men deployed or were they home pending deployment?

If they have guns in their home and come home to said guns, that shit can go down on an impulsively sign off moment.

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3. Impulse can be so powerful, but BRIEF!!!

Most people have impulsive behavior, some more frequently than others, usually brief, not usually so destructive.

[DeadEyeDyck]

8. Guns stay in the armory n/t

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9. Service weapons may stay in the armory.

But private at home weapons which actually kill the veterans in question?

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2. With military operations on 5 fronts, a new AFB going into

Poland and the US building a "secret" CIA AFB base in the Gulf my gandkid is being put on 6/12's and the ground pounders are already on 24/7.

Something is up and they're being stretched too thin.

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4. My Navy captain nephew & My B&R brother, both are out of the country . . .

My nephew is a nuclear engineer, so I wonder if he isn't advising others on a team in/near Japan.

[SaveAmerica]

6. I agree 100%, stretched way to thin. Thinking of your grandkid...

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5. What does this have to do with pecker pics?

All attempts don't get reported. There are signs all over the VA hospital and messages during commercials on military television programs giving advice on what to do if a servicemember thinks they want to harm themselves. I'm not a mental health professional but I've often wondered how helpful these signs with phone numbers to call are. I think that there are too many servicemembers left to their own devices whether active duty or dumped back in their community because they are reservists or guardsmen.

In my little girl's perfect world, all of the troops would be on their way home now and DoD money redirected to their mental and physical recovery.

[Plucketeer]

7. What would we expect

There's the ridiculous crowing about the "ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY!" Take ANY soldier and keep passing him thru the meat grinder - see what develops. If we had a draft (one where you'd have to have real physical disability to evade going overseas), you can DAMNED SURE bet we'd have been out of all these conflicts long ago

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10. If we were ever to know the truth of these wars and soldering, it would all be over --