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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Military Suicide Leading Cause of Death

Suicide surpassed war as the military's leading cause of death
USA TODAY
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Gregg Zoroya
October 31, 2014

War was the leading cause of death in the military nearly every year between 2004 and 2011 until suicides became the top means of dying for troops in 2012 and 2013, according to a bar chart published this week in a monthly Pentagon medical statistical analysis journal.

For those last two years, suicide outranked war, cancer, heart disease, homicide, transportation accidents and other causes as the leading killer, accounting for about three in 10 military deaths each of those two years.
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Enough said on how the military and congress failed to live up to the "one too many suicides" for them.

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