Military suicides climb to record number in 2012

[The Patriot]

The Associated Press reports today that suicides among service members climbed to record high of 349 in 2012, 48 more than in 2011.

Here’s a link to Robert Burns’ piece describing the increase. It includes the troubling observation that people studying the rising number of suicides do not expect the trend to reverse.

As Burns reports:

David Rudd, a military suicide researcher and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Utah, said he sees two main categories of troops who are committing suicide at an accelerating pace: Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans …

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