Army studying high rate of suicide among US soldiers in Iraq

[phillybri]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&e=2&u=/afp/us_iraq_suicide

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Eleven US soldiers and three Marines have killed themselves in the past seven months in Iraq -- an annualized rate of 17 suicide per 100,000 soldiers. The usual rate of army suicides is 13 per 100,000 soldiers, the report in the USA Today newspaper said.

Buried on Yahoo, of course....

[phillybri]

1. This interests nobody???

You must be joking!!!!

[Don_G]

2. The Results May Be Skewed

A soldier stationed at Ft Knox was found in a remote wooded area on base a few years ago with 23 stab wounds.

The Army investigators ruled the death a "suicide" partly to get out of paying the insurance benefits (IMHO).

[bhunt70]

3. my math is bad...

but I think the change is from .014% to .017% which may not translate into that much of a difference (except to the people that have this happen to someone close to them).

The trials of war takes it effect on people different ways and I don't think it is political in nature.

just my 2 cents.

edit for typo

[Bandit]

4. As the Sheriff from Texas said when

He found the body of a black man hanging by the neck from a tree. The body had been riddled with bullet holes and his neck had been cut from ear to ear,and multiple stab wounds in the back. "Damnedest case of suicide I've ever seen"