New Jersey National Guardsman Suicides Blamed On 4 Soldiers?

This part sums up the ineffectiveness of "suicide prevention" and resilience training.

“Everybody has to take some responsibility when we lose a soldier,” Cunniff said. “It’s our duty as citizens, much less soldiers, to look after one another. That’s one of the cornerstones of our suicide prevention program here and the military on the whole.”

If it doesn't work for those not deployed, then how did they expect it to work for the deployed? They can blame the soldiers all they want but when they pushed programs that failed, they should have stopped using them. So what is behind this still being used when the number of suicides went up afterwards?

"They are among a large and vulnerable group of young soldiers who enlist in the Guard and bring to the job the baggage of their everyday life, from family and relationship conflicts to financial and job problems, that puts them at risk."

The National Guards is like all other branches and they do psychological testing before enlistment. How were these "vulnerable" men allowed to enlist?

N.J. Army National Guard grapples with three suicides after decade of none
NJ.com
Christopher Baxter
November 23, 2014

Governor Chris Christie greets the troop before the ceremony during the New Jersey National Guard Military Review at the National Guard Training Center in Sea Girt , NJ 9/27/14 (Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

TRENTON — Five years ago, the country’s top military officer touted the New Jersey Army National Guard as a model of success for the nation, noting that it had experienced no suicides among its members since the invasion of Iraq began in 2003.

The record was impressive and one matched by only a handful of other states. The overall suicide rate in the Guard steadily climbed through the decade and, by 2008, had exceeded the rate among the general population, federal statistics show.

Since then, the rise has continued, with the Guard hitting an all-time record of 120 suicides across the nation in 2013. New Jersey held steady at zero.

But that came to a quiet end this year, when, in the span of six months, three New Jersey Army National Guard members committed suicide, and a fourth died as a result of a possible drug overdose, NJ Advance Media has learned.

Their backgrounds, however, do not fit the profile of soldiers who ship off to war and struggle with post-traumatic stress and reintegration upon return. All four men were first-time enlistees, from 21 to 25 years old, and had never been deployed.
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