Surge of suicide among American soldiers: one suicide a day

50% more suicides among US servicemen than those killed in battles with the Taliban, writes Francesco Tortora in a material published on the website of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

"The number of suicides in the US military over the past decade was a record. Most of those who committed suicide served in Afghanistan. For the first 155 days of 2012 of the year 154, the US military committed suicide: an average of one suicide per day," the newspaper writes. .

"Such statistics have alarmed the American military elite. Over the two previous years, the number of suicides stabilized, and this year Pentagon analysts predicted an inversion of the situation," the author of the article said.

"Due to suicide, the US armed forces lose by 50% more troops than as a result of military operations against the Taliban. The largest number of suicides among those who have several years of participation in hostilities. However, a significant part of the soldiers who decided to die are never Were not at the front line, prolonged stresses resulting from prolonged stays at the front, post-traumatic problems, excessive medication and a weak American economy are the reasons for suicides. , unable to provide work for veterans who have returned to their homeland, "writes the author of the article.

"The head of the US military department, Leon Panetta, said recently:" It is necessary to eliminate prejudices that strike at soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress and other mental problems. We must be intolerant towards those who humiliate or ostracize those who need professional help and who seek such help consciously, "the author of the article reports.

Comments

[vadimus]

The degeneration of the nation, if you can call them a nation ...

[pribolt]

This is their "stress" from Heroin, during abstinence they endure their own brains.

[Aleksey67]

That in the civilian population they have psychiatrists and psychologists, the main medical profession, that in the army ... Such an army will destroy itself

[Tersky]

I thought for myself, the US army all consists of contractors, in Russia mainly from conscripts, whence the 154 person who decided to put an end to life in the contract army came from, it seems like purposeful and confident people are going there, and not a mess. In general, some incomprehensible phenomenon.

[party3AH]

Quote: Tersky

I thought for myself, the US army all consists of contractors, in Russia mainly from conscripts, whence the 154 person who decided to put an end to life in the contract army came from, it seems like purposeful and confident people are going there, and not a mess. In general, some incomprehensible phenomenon.

Yes, they are just inspired from the very beginning by what cool peppers they are !!! and their president, and the Minister of Defense, and Clintonsha, but after stripping or fighting a clash, this cool pepper suddenly realizes that it is just a pod ... And in a civilian, most likely he is not waiting for anything worthwhile.

[thatupac]

They mainly go to the US Army not for the idea, but for the sake of money, free education and obtaining legal citizenship. But after all, 3 years still need to be tattered. And this will be more complicated than the desire for a simple one ...

[Dmitry.V]

We don’t forget about the green card.

[mind1954]

Perfectly noticed!
People are going, not even for money, but for citizenship - international
limit! Those. these are completely random people who apparently don't have
other real ways to achieve their goal, and when they, once in the army,
understand that this activity is beyond their power, then a typical
suicidal life deadlock situation!

[an-sar]

In the head you need to include brains when you take a weapon in your hands!

[Pimply]

I would not say. The money there is relatively small for the civil sector. Patriotic feelings play a significant role there. However, the mercantile part is also there - a free college, opportunities for promotion, benefits, etc.

[neri73-r]

Pimply, from there? You know their orders, why don’t you serve?

[broker]

They go there from lack of money in America, they lure them into the army as they should, and in Afghanistan they watch this and hang it!

[Sandov]

Tersky,
Is the voice of conscience forced to end the scores with life. I can’t even believe it.

[Dmitriy69]

Everything is simple, even in the very minds of propaganda, there are glimpses and the psyche cannot reconcile itself with the severity of the deed, and so the gentlemen who promote the ideas of democracy crumble themselves into petty veneregreta.

[Puskarinkis]

I agree to all 100%.

[an-sar]

You must answer for the blood they shed, but they don’t even have willpower, just as Judas did things and loop!

[snek]

The Defense Ministry recently published depressing statistics of non-combat losses of the Russian Armed Forces for 2008. Here are the numbers: 471 soldiers died while serving or being fired. 121 people died in accidents. 50 people - due to violation of traffic rules and during the operation of vehicles. 26 soldiers were killed by colleagues "by negligence." Another 24 people are victims of hazing. 231 conscript soldiers committed suicide.

taken: http://www.ng.ru/columnist/2009-01-20/100_army.html

According to the head of the National Association of the Association of Reserve Officers, Alexander Kanshin, the number of suicides is increasing every year in the Russian army, which is a consequence of an unhealthy moral and psychological situation.
Since 2005, 2531 serviceman of the Russian army committed suicide. In 2008, this number reached the mark of 231 people, which is seven more than in 2007.

taken: http://evrazia.org/n.php?id=6977
So I would not be so categorical in assessments.

[thatupac]

The army is a tracing-paper of a society. Look, we have recently teens massively died voluntarily. Russians are degenerating.

[Sergeant Air Force]

that you minus it. it's true. we must not close our eyes to the problem and ** minus ** (in this case), but solve it. not only Russians are expressed. This whole fucking world expresses itself and goes crazy. or come down already. Money rules the world. From this, an adult sometimes has a roof going. What can we say about children and young soldiers .... Although how did young people live during the Second World War.? This is what helps a person, family, nation to survive. National idea. Understanding that doing the right thing ... It's time for us to have an idea. And then Russia lives ... just to live. so far it seems to me

[fern]

And the fact that in our year 1500 children commit suicide, what can it be called? Children .... just children, not soldiers. The future of the country. These soldiers will die 4 times less per year. And here many gloat over other people's problems, forgetting about their own.

[Welesson]

Moreover, the gloating looks bad because in America they are trying to solve problems, while in our country they prefer not to notice them. The causes of suicide are typical of the poor, as is the case with us.

[Lord of the Sith]

No one would gloat if the Americans didn’t bomb anyone ...
Nobody gloats about suicides in Japan or Germany or Canada right?
But the United States, or rather, their leaders have greatly got the whole world.

[andrey586]

Amers reached the point that every US soldier needs a psychiatrist

[755962]

All signs of brainwashed and hopeless future after service. Military personnel who have repeatedly served in combat zones are at risk.

However, the same statistics indicate that some of the military personnel who committed suicide have never been to hot spots. And how to explain this?

[andrey586]

PART OF MILITARY SERVERS- maybe 5-10 out of 100 from the hazing of warriors

[Neighbor]

Quote: vadimus

Nation degeneration

Little to them ......... !!!!

Quote: Tersky

where 154 people who decided to end their lives in the contract army came from

When they signed the contract, they thought they would play toys for $ - like the Security, and not kill hundreds of innocent and defenseless people with hundreds.
+ Drugs - and they have half of the "soldiers" there, as if on drugs, homosexuality, mountains of corpses, a sea of ​​blood and no morality.
Here the roof of a normal person will go, what can we expect from Amer mercenaries !!! - which are so since childhood and in life - complete .......... !!!

[SIA]

Let them shoot themselves all over. It will be easier to conquer.

[APASUS]

Quote: vadimus

The degeneration of the nation, if you can call them a nation ...

This is not degeneration, it is the problem of a well-fed snickering society! They brainwash them day and night with their coolness, their strength of arms, advanced science! For them, war is a publicity stunt ............... just a walk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the war is dirt, blood, groans of the wounded and shouts of shell-shocked and if you survived the battle, it does not mean that you remained normal!
In Vietnam, approximately 58000 people died and almost 303000 were injured, but that's not all the losses !!!!!!!!! Within 15 years after the war, 100000 former soldiers committed suicide. This disease was called "Vietnam syndrome" People are not ready to such things and to return back to society, it is much more difficult than ..................... I cannot explain

[Pimply]

This is called post-traumatic syndrome. Regular occurrence in those involved in military conflicts.

[Yarbay]

Eugene!
I do not much disagree with you!
Have you heard a believer commit suicide ??
I do not think that a person will commit suicide if he has not committed heinous crimes!
I saw a lot of things that showed apasus in the photo and I can’t look at it without emotion!

[an-sar]

This is not a nation, this is the territory of America inhabited by thieves, bandits, exiled convicts !!! This is a state that has no HISTORY !!!

[neri73-r]

Earth they rest in peace, in the sense of this whole nation, if it can be called that!

[re321]

Oh Lord, how did the Pentagon not censor this information? How is it allowed? American censorship shame forever and ever ...
It was necessary to do as in Russia - they fell out of bed themselves, hit their head on a corner and died ...

[Alexei]

You, too, fell from the bed about your head, just survived. And survived along the way and out of mind too.

Quote: re321

It was necessary to do as in Russia -

I remember a young guy loaded into his homeland in zinc-hanged himself. He was also loading a lieutenant colonel (not my unit, he had the headquarters before), he drove home in a mail carriage - he also hanged himself. It’s sad for us in Russia for a long time ... But in the glorious Trolls of the valiant contract army of the Americans, it seems, too, is not the ultimate dream.
"And the soldier was tormented by melancholy, he shot himself and nothing more." Chizh.

[Фокус]

In the American army, censorship is worse than in the Russian one, my brother saw with his own eyes what American hazing is and they practically do not write or talk about it in comparison with the Russian media, so remove the "American noodles" from your ears.

[Puskarinkis]

The motto of the pind .. army: die yourself, but bend your comrade!

[mind1954]

Incorrect comparison!
They call us, forcibly, by law.
And there they go themselves, from hopelessness.
So they are afraid of them there. Why do they need censorship.
Another reason to flaunt "freedom and democracy"!
And they have censorship where they need to. I think you yourself
know a lot of examples!

[Tirpitz]

Just ordinary soldiers themselves do not see the point in all this mess.

[vorobey]

say it easier. Conscience seizes.

[snek]

Quote: vorobey

say it easier. Conscience seizes.

Soldiers do what politicians tell them to do. And among politicians, conscience atrophies even at birth.

[Tersky]

Quote: snek

And among politicians, conscience atrophies even at birth.

Nikolai, she’s destroyed them at the genetic level three generations ago, so there’s nothing to atrophy there ...

[Magadan]

Tirpitz, golden words. Catch +. People understand that everything is a lie, all their democratic values ​​are a lie.
They were told that they were going to protect freedom from dictators, and as a result, they began to oppress free peoples, which for some reason simply did not want to live in liberal values, but simply in the traditions of their own people.
Here they are from this all injustice and hypocrisy and tears the roof

[edge]

reality opens their eyes to them: they wanted to see the world — let them now look ....

[Dictator]

Do not take out the service. Why go to the army? And for such people we have an article - like 18b on which they send it to a demobilization.

[antiaircrafter]

Some are morally unstable. Or maybe they didn’t let them mock the dead Taliban?

[Alex63]

And you can somehow help increase the number of suicides among American soldiers. Ready to make my contribution.

[vorobey]

Well, perhaps the popularization of the Russian attraction "Russian roulette" Well, what else to do in the evening after the service?

[Armata]

Just let them play from Makarov, otherwise the extreme is like that with a revolver.

[vorobey]

rules of the game.
1 The host with the PM in his hands selects eight players and gives the team to settle in the order of numbers.
2. Participants in the game line up in one line according to their numbers.
3 The first number makes up heads or tails.
4. The leader tosses a coin and if the first number has not guessed the side of the coin, it goes to the first number. Attaches the gun to the temple and pulls the trigger. If you guessed it, the game begins with the eighth number.

[Armata]

Well, you Sasha and bent. I have a new offer. All comers sit in a circle, an anti-personnel mine is placed in the center of the circle, and doors are locked. Then the matches are pulled in turn, who pulled the short one takes a hammer and with all the dope on the fuse, this is the team to start the game. Those who managed to squiggle through the window are considered winners and get the right to keep the hammer in the next round.

[vorobey]

No, Zhenya. Better defensive grenade. participants in the game become in a circle.
the leader pulls out the check and passes the grenade in a circle. Participants must also quickly accept and pass on. The game greatly develops motor skills and coordination of movements.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: vorobey

Better defensive grenade.

What do you invent a bicycle? They play already and not bad. The players are locked in the command compartment, standing in the repair of the submarine, I close and turn on the vacuum cleaner ...

[vorobey]

What if not a Chinese vacuum cleaner gets caught? The game will drag out and become uninteresting.

[Armata]

Quote: Aleksey67

standing in the repair of the submarine, shut down and turn on the vacuum cleaner ..

This is already Chinese roulette

Quote: lcalex

You can still play football. Brick in a minefield

This is not democratic. Shoes are badly damaged and players have unequal chances in the game. what if someone doesn’t get a brick, a fight may happen.

[Aleksey67]

Quote: vorobey

What if not a Chinese vacuum cleaner gets caught?

Practice has shown that Chinese self-flaming comes across

Quote: vorobey

The game will drag out and become uninteresting.

The Chinese produce a lot of "good" household electrical appliances

The most "game" in the US troops was McCain, his runaways from an air-to-ground missile on an aircraft carrier were remembered by many for life

[vorobey]

McCain is just a very good host. This one, without fear and reproach, is easy to tear down an airplane. A hundred people to fry, please. Well, I didn’t modify it with the aircraft carrier, I didn’t drown it. So jambs at work for everyone.

[Tersky]

Quote: vorobey

Grobanut plane is easy.

Sasha, why in a single number, he slammed 20 pieces And what he forgot in the Senate, he has a natural gift from air defense, 20 aircraft with one missile, where is our C-400

[vorobey]

Such talent is lost. If you still give him an assault rifle, and tin cans to his tail. Any army in horror will leave the battlefield.

[Puskarinkis]

So the Americans are playing - they are building democracy in a single country and in the world as a whole. This show is shown on TV channels, explaining to the rest of the citizens about the "great goal" ... Their army, by and large, is more busy with its own problems - respecting the rights of all - and further down the list ... They are being tagged, the "incentive system" is turned on. and they "show off" all over the world ... until they face real resistance and the real horrors of war. American mercenaries (not specialists) are good and morally stable as long as the war is similar to "Call of Duty" or some kind of simulator. And if, for several years, "actively carried democracy" on the front line, and then the brain turned on, then just fire up a bullet or take a drug, which is also ...

[Denzel13]

And what to do about it, his hand is busy

[lcalex]

Hello. I will make an offer:
You can still play football. Brick in a minefield. That's where the adrenaline

[Puskarinkis]

They had such cases. though not with "Makar", but with a pistol!

[edge]

that's why they changed Colt revolvers to Berets

[Sasha 19871987]

apparently their conscience is tormenting for what they do up there ...

[pribolt]

I doubt that they even have it

[Puskarinkis]

Their conscience woke up or was, and Faith and Truth wasn’t ... here they shoot.

[edge]

they walked honestly with a lawn mower, and what was left was fried on a barbecue. But a holy place does not happen empty - it must somehow respond to holes ........

[kotdavin4i]

All this is of course ridiculous - especially the comments, however, the fact that ordinary soldiers in non-combat conditions kill themselves is no longer good.

[amph1cyon]

Of course, the family doctor stayed at home. And there the medical staff do not understand the campaign. If a person needs stress, give him 100g per chest, and not shove beer

[Hamul]

Good afternoon!

As far as I remember, a similar article has already been published, and about six months ago.

And I don't want to say anything about the poor "American soldiers". Remember Afghan - recent events (family murder). If our guys went there, fought, but helped build schools and put things in order, then amers only fight and destroy the indigenous population - like the Indians. And you can also watch the film without much pathos "The Lord of the Storm" and gaze intently at the psychological portraits of Americans.
And even better: let's help our fighters who have passed the hot spots more often, we are not doing well on this front either. The state forgets about the guys and they get drunk ...

[Welesson]

The comments are actually mostly funny. Only somehow it looks bad in relation to our "Afghans", some of whom also took their own lives in the army and after it. By the way, the reasons are almost the same.

[Commander]

Unlike our soldiers, amers get a lot of money for this, and ours - for free !!! But ours know how to remove stresses - with vodka, and as amers - with beer, this is only a diuretic !!!

[ZUI]

It all depends on the person. Karabakh + 2 Chechnya - did not think about suicide.

[Gur]

Yes, even if they all shoot themselves there ... the world will be cleaner.

[Nechai]

Quote: Tersky

it seems like purposeful and confident people are going there, and not mess. In general, some incomprehensible phenomenon.

Victor, talk about what and where they are returning. Quite fully stated everything in my "Magadan" = full reshpekt.
Once I watched a selection of interviews with theirs veterans, homeless. The reasons for their stay in this "status" were named in general the same:
-Not an opportunity to get a decent, permanent job. Due to the fact that they are all considered frostbitten on the head. Contempt and harassment from others, like butchers and killers;
- the increasingly widening gap between those ideals for which they fought and the reality surrounding them;
-a complete lack of mutual understanding with his family, with friends and relatives;
-only in an environment of self-similar, surrounded by the same disadvantaged US defenders, they feel more or less comfortable.

[Check]

"The number of suicides has stabilized over the previous two years."
Obama, for stability!

[IRBIS]

Basically, people with an unstable psyche or under the influence of something "tonic" take their own lives. And this happens when the individual's life stereotypes diverge from the harsh prose of life. Lack of realism, maximalism in judgments and conclusions. Americans, like children, live with illusions. Personally, I know hundreds of DB veterans, and for all the time no one has done anything like that. Everyone is alive, maybe not quite healthy. And the desire to live with everyone is envy!

[AIR ZNAK]

For the sake of completeness, it would be nice to take statistics on ** theirs ** and she would say a lot to ours, but warriors have this is the most secret topic.

[Boot under the carpet]

It's just probably very embarrassing to be an American!

[Stasi.]

The whole problem of the Americans is that they began their history as a nation that has no honor. The concepts of honor and dignity could be formed in a society where there was a so-called high society, that is, an aristocracy. In a society past an era of chivalry. And the Americans immediately began as a nation of lumberjacks and gold miners, mainly peasants from Europe moved to the New World. But how does a peasant know the rules of honor inherent in a nobleman? Here they are and formed. Once an American was associated with a person from whom knowledge and enterprise are key. Modern American today is an aggressive illiterate, with brainwashed. And what is happening with American soldiers is natural. These are the consequences of forming a nation without honor.

[SF93]

If I were an American soldier, I would hang myself too. To be a weapon in the hands of brainless rulers is a shame for a loving man. And for hamadryl chewing gum forever, whose brains in the place of the convolutions consist of fat folds, this is the norm. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are.

[Aftar]

They also have a problem with suicides because many amers go to serve for lack of money and brains. Somehow it was all about it in one program. So they showed the "soldiers" and interviewed them. What for like went to the army? Well, the "soldiers" answered. One world to see (well, I was in five states, in Africa and somewhere else, happy with that). The other is to be able to get an education, the third is because "it's cool." They don't go to the army to fight. They perceive their service as work or pleasure. And when they are sent to war and they understand what it is, they are terrified. And they don't want it. Suicides-suicides, they are still madly deserted ...

[Barba ross]

Degradation on the march. Good.