The Real Insurgency: Suicide Rates in the Military Ranks

NDI also revealed that only a small percentage of the 83 members committed suicide, 58% of which have never been deployed. Despite widespread access to medical services, compulsory suicide prevention drills and other preventive efforts suicide has become one of the leading causes of death in the US military in recent years. The suicide rate began to rise dramatically in 2005. From the benchmark rate of 10.3 to 10.3 per 100,000 people to 16.3 people per 100 thousand people in 2008, the highest among the Marines and Army personnel Rate (19.9 and 19.3 / 100 thousand people) 4 Since 2009, the active suicide rate

According to statistics, Durkheim showed that the suicide rate of the military in modern society can not be explained by the lack of military life suffering at low levels, because the official suicide rate is just higher than the soldier's suicide rate. On the contrary, the high percentage of executives can be explained by military law requiring passive obedience such as officers underestimate their lives. In this case, Durkheim's degree of personalization was too weak, opposed to excessive personalization or deregulation. In his view, he considered other major suicide forms.

According to the report, the high suicide rate of US military veterans is a sustained phenomenon compared to the general public. According to the latest report published by the Veteran Veterans Administration (VA) in 2016, the report will analyze records of 55 million veterans between 1979 and 2014. The current analysis shows that an average of 20 veterans dies each year on suicide. In 2013, Virginia announced a study targeting suicide from 1999 to 2010. Several sources indicate that this ratio may underestimate the suicide rate. According to a recent analysis, about 30 people have died of suicide every year, and an average of 14 people committed suicide every 100,000 people. However, there is no adjustment of age and sex.