Preventing military suicides starts with the end of Resiliency Training

BLOG: Marine general calls for stepped-up efforts to stem suicides
North County Times
By MARK WALKER

Eight active-duty Marines took their own lives in July, raising the number of troop suicides so far this year to 32 ---- the same number recor…

Despite an array of screening, monitoring and outreach programs, the Marine Corps like all U.S. military services remains vexed by suicide rates among its troops.

Through July, 32 active-duty Marines have taken their own lives, equaling the figure recorded for all of 2011.

Faced with that alarming trend, a Marine Corps general says the service has to do "whatever it can" to stem the number of self-inflicted deaths in the ranks.
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Here's a place to start.

End resiliency training! Stop telling them they are weak minded, didn't train right and it is their fault they have PTSD!

US Army reports spike in suicides
(AFP) – 12 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Suicides among US Army soldiers more than doubled in July compared to June, the Pentagon said, the latest evidence of a worrisome trend that has vexed military leaders.

Among active-duty troops, 26 soldiers killed themselves last month, compared to 12 in June, according to an army statement.

The July toll was the highest for any single month since the Army began documenting suicides by month in 2009, officials said.

The army, which has borne the brunt of more than ten years of protracted ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has suffered the highest suicide rates among all the US armed services.

Commanders have struggled to stem the problem, funding a myriad of programs and research to try to understand what is driving so many soldiers to take their lives.
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This program does not work, has not worked at best, made it worse for too many told they could train their brains to be "mentally tough" and would be prevented from ending up with PTSD. WHEN WILL THEY GET A CLUE THIS IS PART OF THE PROBLEM? Will the media ever get serious about asking the DOD about this?