With so much news about the recent Presidential election taking up most of the news cycle, the Department of Defense (DoD) Annual Report on Suicide for 2023 was released and, unfortunately, summarily ignored. Our Service members deserve more, especially in light of the findings in the report.
Suicides among active-duty military personnel are at all-time highs and according to a USO report, “some branches of the Armed Forces are experiencing the highest rate of suicides since before World War II.”
These data become even more startling when one understands that the same USO research reveals that “military suicide rates are four times higher than deaths that occurred during military operations.” By 2021, the data revealed that since 9/11 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans died by suicide compared to the 7,057 service members killed in combat in those same twenty years.
The DoD suicide report explains that 523 (25.6 per 100,000) service members took their lives in 2023 which is a steady increase since 2011. And, of interest, DoD explains that 42% of the suicides occurred among those with selected mental health diagnoses.
It is difficult to understand how the nation’s military personnel are killing themselves in ever-increasing numbers when, at the same time, mental health resources have steadily increased. Consider the FY2024 Budget Request for the Military Health System which highlights $1.400 million for clinical mental health programs and initiatives. In fact, according to the report, mental health budget requests top the list of health requests. A billion and a half dollars on mental health programs and still the suicide rate increases? […]
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