This is precisely the sort of news we didn’t need in a week that’s already brimming with disappointments. The United States Defense Health Agency recently published a new study on health and mortality rates among American military personnel. While physical healthcare, in general, has been improving in many areas, mental healthcare is still lacking in significant areas. One of the most alarming statistics reveals that U.S. soldiers were more likely to die by suicide than from combat industries. And it wasn’t by a small margin. Soldiers were nine times more likely to die in that manner. The second-leading cause of death was accidents. This data wasn’t drawn from the current era, either. The period covered ran from 2014 through 2019 while the war in Afghanistan was still grinding on. Solutions to address this seem to remain elusive. (USA Today)
U.S. soldiers were almost nine times…
