More suicides than crashes for troops makes news?

Excuse me but, there are families all over this country scratching their heads over this one. One thing not talked about is the fact vehicles are used to commit suicide everyday. Many veterans choose this way so that their families at least get the insurance money because most of them do not have life insurance policies. One vehicle accidents have many causes including flashbacks, DUI and yes, suicides. Families suspect it but no one can ever know what the true cause was.

MILITARY MENTAL HEALTH
Suicides Eclipse Car Crashes as Top Non-Combat Cause of U.S. Troop Deaths
By MARK THOMPSON
June 14, 2012
TIME Battleland

For years, motor-vehicle accidents have killed more U.S. troops than any other non-combat cause. There have been safe-driving campaigns on military posts since troops and transportation first got together. “Many military members are young, single, male, and high-school educated,” the Pentagon’s Medical Surveillance Monthly Report noted in March 2010. “These characteristics are associated with high risk of dying in motor vehicle crashes.”

That changed Wednesday, with the publication of the May issue of the same monthly report, which tracks trends in troops’ ailments and medical care. In the dry and clinical prose favored by the medical community, the report said that in each of the past two years, more troops have died at their own hands than in motor-vehicle accidents.
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