Army and National Guard Suicides Increased First Quarter 2015

The hidden number in all of this is the number of servicemembers decreased at the same time the number of suicides went up.

With a peak force of 570,000 troops following the 9/11 attacks, the resulting 450,000 troops will represent a drop of 120,000 troops since 2012 or 21 percent of the force.
Army announces force reduction of 40,000 troops, CNN

This has been missing from all the reports on suicides within the military. No one is talking about the very simple fact that with the increase in the number of suicides there were less serving. You'd think that would have been a very important fact to report however, no one brings that up. Why is that missing?

Then again, there is also another part missing from all the reporting on these tragic outcomes after these men and women stepped up saying they'd risk their lives for us. We spent years and billions to save them.

Missing are billions of dollars spent on "prevention" and raising "awareness" with programs that never worked. Proof of that simple fact is that the number of suicides for 2012 were historically high yet that was also a year after the war in Iraq ended and military force size began to be cut. All branches have felt the impact and all branches saw the number of suicides rise after the number of repeated failures were increased.

While active/reserve suicides increased, the number of veteran suicides also increased. The fact remains that far too many have made money for claiming to know how to reduce suicides.

Anyone ask for their money back?

Department of Defense Releases First Quarter 2015 Suicide Information
Release No: NR-270-15
July 10, 2015

Today, the Department of Defense released the Quarterly Suicide Report (QSR) for the first quarter of calendar year 2015.

The report summarizes confirmed suicide counts for all services and components during the months of January there were 57 suicides among service members in the active component, 15 suicides among service members in the reserve component and 27 suicides among service members in the National Guard.

A closer review of the data for Q1 2014 and Q1 2015 reveals that while there were decreases in the number of suicides in the Marine Corps, the Navy, and the Air Force, there was an increase in the number of suicides in the Army.