Military suicide rate drops as mental health programs are pushed by leaders

October 21, 2022, 10:11 PMOCTOBER 15: Soldiers of the 101st US Airborne Division carry their rifles and bags as they move within the circuit during the Recon Clash-22 Military Drill on October 15, 2022 in Solina, Poland. Soldiers from the United States, Poland And Estonia demonstrated tactical skills in line with NATO procedures.

Pentagon data counts 326 instances of suicide in the active duty force in 2021, down from 384 in 2020.The department took steps to lower suicide risk across the force in 2021, including awareness programs, boosts in quality of life, and efforts to reduce the stigma of seeking help. The improvement has been heartening, but Pentagon officials believe there's more to be done.

"While we are cautiously encouraged by the drop in these numbers, one year is not enough time to assess real change," Foster said.

Compared to other military forces throughout the world the standards, training, fitness and education for a U.S. recruits has diminished considerably in order to attract less qualified applicants to fill the ranks - Obviously the current recruit is psychologically lacking also 👎🏼

Yeah, they were all forced out because of not taking a killing vaccine!

direct proportion RIP Amen

You mean mental health programs help.... mental health? Wow, who would have thunk? I guess republicans will have some other reason for it since, you know, mental health is bullshit.

Why fight to protect the woke weak communist… people are not feeling patriotic when people are more focused on protecting pronouns than our Vets

So they are just waiting until they aren’t active anymore and the fact remains it’s still in a upward trend ok. Nice spin

Reduction in suicide rate is a positive and reporting on the military not meeting enlistment quotas would be a much better metric to report on because not having enough servicemembers should be concerning.

This is as asinine as BiDumb saying inflation is only up 1%.

Is military training too difficult?

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Is this the woke military the GOP is talking about?

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