Suicide Rate Among Troops Alarms Pentagon for 59 seconds?

Stunned,,,simply stunned. I read the headline and thought, great, there has to be an amazing video connected to it, but wow, I was totally wrong. It wasn't even a minute long. How alarmed can they be?

Jonathan Woodson, Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs, said that suicide was a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" ignoring the evidence that with all the years of "research" into military suicide and combat PTSD, the results seem to be the DOD has been trying to get around a permanent problem with a temporary solution.

You can't cure PTSD but you can heal it. What the DOD has come up with on fighting PTSD is like having the best bullets in the world without anything to put them into.

Suicide Rate Among Troops Alarms Pentagon (Video)

September 21, 2011
By Beth Ford Roth


Pentagon officials have grown alarmed at the growing suicide rate among servicemembers as Suicide Prevention Month grows to a close. According to a Pentagon Report:

1,100 servicemen and women committed suicide in 2005 to 2009 — one suicide every day and a half. The Army’s suicide rate doubled in that time.

Navy veteran Ann Longboy has joined the chorus of military voices trying to bring awareness to suicide prevention. Longboy shared her story on the Defense Centers for Excellence website about how her own suicidal thoughts in 1987 as a young Sailor were stopped from being put into action by her Navy leadership. She writes of how grateful she was to her leadership for intervening, because the consequences of suicide hit home for her in 2004 when her younger brother took his own life:
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