In the US, the number of suicides among veterans is more than the number of those killed during the hostilities 25 times

According to research data, for each soldier of the United States of America killed in the current year on the battlefield, there are twenty-five war veterans who committed suicide.

Researchers point out that one and a half American soldiers die every day and a half, while war veterans die approximately every eighty minutes. Each year, more than 6500 suicides of veterans are recorded, which is significantly more than the number of American soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan since the outbreak of hostilities.

In parallel, there has been an increase in the number of those who suffer from anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses. Most often, stress disorders are the main cause of suicide, as well as crimes committed by war veterans. Basically, they are subject to those military personnel who have served several terms of service.

In particular, more than one-third of American soldiers who served three to four terms are prone to mental disorders. According to preliminary data, in men between the ages of 17 and 24, the risk of such disorders increases fourfold. Commenting on statistical studies, Bob Fielner, a congressman and Democrat from San Diego and a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee of the United States of America, said that this is already an epidemic that the authorities are not paying due attention to. According to Filner, much more can be done to solve this problem.

Meanwhile, the congressman noted positive changes. In particular, the US Department of Veterans Affairs created a hotline for psychological assistance to the military, as well as measures are being taken to eradicate the stereotype of the shamefulness of male treatment for psychological assistance from the minds of American soldiers.

In addition, since March 2009, the US military leadership has begun to implement programs aimed at reducing the number of suicides: this is the creation of a working group dedicated to the prevention of suicide, it is also a military weekend to study the problem of suicide. In addition, twice a year, all US Army soldiers must undergo psychological testing.

However, according to Patrick Bellon, who heads the Veterans for Common Sense organization, there are still many unresolved problems and gaps. He said that over the next five years, the number of veterans will increase by one million people. The Committee already faces problems related to their number, so it’s hard to say what actions will be taken in the future.

Comments

[Kars]

Strange as that.
Can conscience torment?

[ward]

And what’s strange ... it’s conscience that torments ... if you think that it’s wrong, of course the roof will go down ... we have a flyer every day from morning till night saying our cause is right ... and then everything is also the case so I sleep peacefully ... plus ..

[Joker]

And do not say, our civilians have never been shot. And they even kill them from helicopters, they think it’s all toys, but as they leave for a civilian, they realize what they have done, but you won’t run away from your conscience.

[zlibeni]

if tormented, then she is ............................

[Dmitriy69]

The Moor has done his job, the Moor is more tries .... no one needs.

[Tiomka]

then why are there twice as many suicides in the Russian Federation as in the USA?

[755962]

Quote: tiomka

then why are there twice as many suicides in the Russian Federation as in the USA?

Almost a battalion of servicemen - 341 people - have died due to suicides in the Russian army over the past year, the chief military prosecutor said. At the same time, he stressed that "almost every second person who voluntarily passed away is a serviceman serving under a contract."http://www.nps-rodina.ru/politic_event/1880/

[Tiomka]

I generally said for the entire population (including the army, as an integral part)

[YARY]

I'm deep lilac how and what a cockroach feels when it krants.
As in some movie said Ulyanov- "One less and that is good" And then more than one! Once we have to fight with these cockroaches, so let them be less.

[Tiomka]

Despite this, the population of the Russian Federation is declining at such a pace (and this is without taking into account the upcoming demographic failure of the 90s), that one of them accounts for five of ours.

[kontrzasada20]

Dear, help me understand !!!! Today the news flashed a message that the Amaricans (always in a small letter) have developed a new optical system for their armed forces, literally: "The US Department of Defense ordered contact lenses from the Washington company InnoVega, the owner of which will be able to focus on several objects at the same time.

According to the BBC, the new device will work "in tandem" with special glasses, the image from which will be projected onto the lenses themselves. According to the developers, this technology will increase the awareness of soldiers in a combat situation.

These lenses are currently undergoing clinical trials in the United States. It is expected that they can go on public sale at the end of 2014, reports

- reports "Vesti FM" on the page http://www.radiovesti.ru/articles/2012-04-13/fm/42608
Further, I dug up this in military materials: "LONDON, April 13. / ITAR-TASS /. The US Department of Defense has ordered contact lenses from the Washington company Innovega, the owner of which will be able to focus on several objects at the same time, the British Broadcasting Company BBC reported today -si.

The new device will work “in tandem” with special glasses, the image from which will be projected onto the lenses themselves. According to the developers, this technology will increase the awareness of soldiers in a combat situation.

Lenses will allow the wearer to focus on two objects at once, since the information received on the glass of glasses will not interfere with seeing the target located at a distance. This effect is achieved using two different filters - the central part of each lens directs light from the information screen to the middle of the pupil, while the peripheral part sends light to the pupil circumference. As a result, both the first and second “picture” enter the retina in sufficient sharpness. “Usually, when you focus on a distant or near object with the camera, only one of them will be sharp,” said CEO Steve Willie. “By putting on our contact lenses, you can focus your eyesight on several objects at once - to see as people usually do not see.”

A contract with the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects / DARPA / for a fully functional prototype lens was signed this week.

“The agreement gives us the opportunity to start prototyping immediately,” Willie said.

These lenses are currently undergoing clinical trials in the United States. The executive director of the company, however, expects to receive a patent for a new technology and hopes that the devices created on its basis can go on public sale before the end of 2014.
. I understand the electronic collimator scope, but this. what is it and what does it eat ???????
How does this lens with glasses work? Any opinion or reflection.

[ward]

Well, pinned up .. or pierced ... You try to speak and write at the same time ... here and in this case, and that and that will not work out very ... plus .. to all the problems strabismus will also be added ...

[kontrzasada20]

Dear Ward. if I understood Amers correctly (always with a small letter) then this complex will allow the soldier to see well into the distance. which is very important in twilight and fog (Lenses will allow the wearer to focus on two objects simultaneously, since the information coming to the glasses glass will not interfere with seeing the target located at a distance) regarding two or more goals at the same time, I agree, this is not yet possible, but to zoom in and zoom out, here I get lost. (here they write: This effect is achieved using two different filters - the central part of each of the lenses directs light from the information screen to the middle of the pupil, while the peripheral part sends light to the pupil's circumference. As a result, both the first and second “picture” come to the retina in sufficient sharpness. “Usually, when using the camera you focus on a distant or close object, only one of them will be in sharpness,” said CEO Steve Willie. contact lenses, you can focus your eyesight on several objects at the same time - to see as people usually do not see. "
I myself am in the army, often in the morning fog at the post — peering at an object, it took on volatile forms (plus fatigue) and then blamed it all on glitches. But here's a message, comrades, what is it?

[Num lock U.A.]

read about the glasses "augmented reality" from Google, it seems to me that the principle of operation is the same
well, or as a helmet-mounted target designation for pilots

[urzul]

I’m wondering how the soldier’s brain can simultaneously focus on the 2 object, try spreading your eyes in different directions;))) And if everything is in the same sharpness, the soldier will not be able to visually determine the distance, I'm afraid this system will reveal a lot of side effects.
And multi-focus cameras have been doing for a long time.

[kontrzasada20]

There is one problem, our brain is programmed by nature to see only one focused picture and in the center. the rest of the infa is currently auxiliary, and there will be several focused images and how the brain will react to this remains in doubt.

[wax]

The number of murders will increase further, as the brain is not adapted for such use (adequate perception of multi-focus images). Splitting of consciousness is provided.

[taseka]

It’s just that after military operations all of them will become oblique and beaked-eyed !!!

[Bat1stuta]

our whole life is "war" (harsh natural conditions, constant pressure from outside, etc.), so it is clearly easier for our soldiers ... plus we have always fought for a just cause ...
and what about the Americans ... I think anyone in their place will move from the coils.

[alex86]

As for "ALWAYS FOR THE RIGHT CASE" - this speaks of the good work of political officers and the subsequent brainwashing with low criticality of perception (as he said, and ) But our stability is clearly higher ...

[fern]

Well maybe. That is the problem. So that the military does not have suicides after conflicts, powerful propaganda is needed. That they did everything right, that their cause is sacred, etc. .. Well, the Americans don’t care, but it’s not only what happens to them ..... and if you think about it, it’s all the same to them. Wives remain, parents, children. Suicides have no brains to think about them. Well, they have sinned, but why is it even painful for relatives to do? Sinned - correct by deed. build a family, help society, etc. ... and it’s better to bury these terrible memories deep inside

[Klibanophoros]

So they worked their job and now no one needs it - hundreds of thousands of homeless war veterans in the USA, what kind of propaganda? This is the fate of all mercenaries.

[fern]

It seems that, after the Army, the state pays for their education in different educational institutions. They have not only a lot of homeless people, but also many former servicemen who have achieved something in life

[ZUI]

Well, this is anti-war propaganda. If there were homeless people, no one would go to the army. They have a very good attitude towards eterans - up to a lifetime permit to shop in the network of local "voentorgs" and refuel at the bases with state-owned fuel at ridiculous prices - 20 times cheaper than those who did not serve.

[snek]

Well, about 20 times cheaper, I doubt it a little, but in general - so. There are many "bonuses" for employees. Of course, for the rich they may seem like a trifle, so one can claim that their army is exploiting the poorer segments of the population. Just name our bankers, politicians, etc. whose children serve in the army.

[fern]

well yes . And on the other hand, take an example from Prince William, who serves in the Air Force. Perhaps a comparison of our elite and the royal family is not entirely correct, but still)

[Tersky]

Short excerpt from an interview with a former US employee in Iraq “When they started shooting at us, our guys returned fire,” he says, sitting in his Brooklyn apartment. - As a result, civilians who fell under the crossfire died. Some of them just rode past, someone sat on the porch of their house. When an improvised explosive device exploded somewhere, we helped the injured civilians. Most of them were women and children. Half of them were dying in my arms. Nothing could be done. Sometimes you go up to a wrecked car and see that the driver is still holding on to the wheel, and he no longer has a head. Some of our guys laughed at this. Some jokingly inserted a lamp into their severed head to make a lamp. They are good guys, they just have seen enough of everything. ”

Listening to such stories, one ceases to be surprised that the number of suicides among the military personnel who were in the war zone is so great. Watching terrible things happen to others, and constantly fearing for your own safety - such stress is enough to break even the most stubborn soldier. Whoever you want to tear the roof will start.

[Tiomka]

moreover, these stories have no nationalities and political subtexts. the same thing happened in Afghanistan, and Chechnya, and another half of Africa, where our Soviet troops carried an international duty. however, why should the local schoolchildren here understand this because they have a black and white world ...

[Ion coaelung]

Something I can hardly believe that they voluntarily kill themselves ... They rather bring it up, and maybe even the service is special in eliminating it, but they pass it off as suicide. This is a country without morality and conscience; there, for the sake of money, they are ready for a lot!

[ZUI]

The gap pattern-understand what ideals of democracy fought.

[snek]

There is such a funny science called mathematics. It is still taught in schools ... well, or taught, at least while I was studying. And so the number of state-owned veterans who committed suicide is 25 times greater than those who died as a result of hostilities. Okay. The Americans admit the death toll in Iraq at the moment is about 4.500 people, the loss in Afghanistan is about 2000 people. Let's add = 6500.Multiply by 25 = 162.500. Taking into account that the number of suicides in the United States per year, according to various sources, is 30.000 - 40.000, it turns out that if we "smear" the resulting figure by 10 years, then half of the suicides in the shah are veterans, and this is a delusion from the point of view of sociology.

[Lexagun]

Yes, there is no nonsense, just like that, a pin is hidden, losses are hidden, because the vast majority of suicides occur at the duty station

[Num lock U.A.]

quite possible explanation, taking into account the comment above (snek Today, 22:37)

[escobar]

How do they feed their soldiers there? That upon entering a civilian soldiers are dying ..

[vladimir64ss]

Quote: escobar

How do they feed their soldiers there?

Tablets. The same drugs. Parish ends, but conscience remains.

[perryiht]

Suicidal are those soldiers who in the war saw that people are being killed. And the authorities will care about their soldiers when there is a clear thread from these soldiers to a soft chair under their ass, but even then they still won’t understand what they don’t like ...

[Enjoy]

And what .. suicides at the duty station do not go at the expense of losses and the election journalists will not bite so much for them.

[perryiht]

Yeah. Well, a soldier from AK shot himself in the back, well, as the Yankees say, "shit happens"

[sergey69]

and in Russia, the guys past Chechnya and Afghanistan get drunk. And many have a disturbed psyche. It is interesting that after the Second World War there was no such number of suicides and those with love were with a normal psyche, although they went through all the gates of hell.

[staser]

It is interesting that after the Second World War there was no such number of suicides, and they were with a normal psyche, although they went through all the gates of hell.

Because they fought for the Motherland, for the life of their relatives and friends, for the future, for their grandchildren. Now what? Amer, for example, howl to gain access to resources and control over the global economy. Why would an ordinary soldier need this? what does he get from it? A good future for your child? A good life? In my opinion, this is how he stuffs the pockets of the rich. Ours won back in Chechnya. What did they get? But for example, Abramovich and Berezovsky recently sued, where they let slip that the militants were to some extent their "cover".
But in my opinion the common between the wars of Amer, Afghanistan and Chechnya can be expressed in the following picture

Those who played computer games of the strategy genre will understand me very well.
One of the reasons for suecid is when a person thinks that he means nothing in this world.

[Lexagun]

The command of all the armies of the world hides the level of losses, this is a common practice, but no one can reach the Pentagon’s laurels, compare the level of losses in Korea (51-53) Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq (both companies, especially the first when the deadlock situation was declared a victory), etc. .
The declared and estimated always differ at times, and losses are written off in other ways, at the same time savings on payments are achieved. Given the marginal nature of the principle of the formation of the American army (the poor, marginalized, non-citizens), this practice does not receive a wide resonance.

[Odinplys]

That's what it means to fight for money ... not at the behest of the heart ... not to defend their homeland ... but to shoot peaceful people ... no conscience to go now here it bursts their bundles ...

[valeri51d]

Dear Colleagues. I drew attention to such a fact, as soon as you do not agree with the opinion of fake generals, they immediately begin to deny you. In correspondence, he will prevail condescending patronage, well, right gentleman (old missile 2). Where are the site moderators looking? Is this a conspiracy? But there are more juniors in rank on the site, we will fight back if this does not stop. If I'm wrong, correct. Sincerely.

[Slavs69]

Quote: sergey69

It is interesting that after the Second World War there was no such number of suicides, and they were with a normal psyche, although they went through all the gates of hell.

Here you need to look at the generation itself. Our grandfathers had a shaky stability. And if you take a closer look, when Grandpa was drinking, then then he screamed all night in a dream, his grandmother was sitting next to him .....

[Vanek]

Quote: 755962

Quote: tiomka
then why are there twice as many suicides in the Russian Federation as in the USA?

Due to suicides in the Russian army over the past year, almost a battalion of military personnel died - 341 people, the chief military prosecutor said.

And they have 6500 a year. One more - two wars (for example Syria and Iran) and America will die out as a nation. At that pace.
Well, or they will help her ...........

[Bek]

What kind of veterans are on figs, what war veterans? for whom or for what did they fight? they are hired soldiers with pedagogical inclinations who, having failed to cope with emotional stress, commit suicide.

[taseka]

They dressed, equipped and armed them perfectly, but you cannot put strength of spirit and faith in a just cause in your pocket!

[vorobey]

[quote = Kars
Strange as that. Can conscience torment?

Kars, you said everything for me +

[Tyumen]

Because they are sensitive, easily injured,
brainless teen accelerators. On courage
shooting people, they feel excitement, returning
home and growing up, can not live with it.

[Tyumen]

He said that over the next five years, the number of veterans will increase by one million people.
So the USA is preparing a big war? Is that a puncture?