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11-19-2007, 03:59 AM
Report: UK Army needs decade to recover
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=29924§ionid=351020601
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/120-veteran-sui.html
"At least 6,256 Americans who served in the military committed
suicide in 2005... a staggering rate of 120 suicides a week,"
according to CBS. That's "a rate twice that of other Americans."
CBS' Evening News has a two-parter on veteran suicides, starting
tonight. It contains some pretty horrific numbers:
* Veterans aged 20-24, who are those most likely to have served
during the War on Terror, are killing themselves when they return
home at rates estimated to be between 2.5 and almost 4 times higher
than non-vets in the same age group. (22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000 people
as compared to just 8.3 per 100,000 for non-vets).
* Overall, those who have served in the military were more than twice
as likely to take their own life in 2005, than Americans who never
served. (18.7-20.8 per 100,000 as compared to 8.9 per 100,000).
...The CBS News Investigative Unit, led by producer Pia Malbran,
contacted all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death
records, for vets and non-vets dating back to 1995. Beyond the first-
ever collection of raw nationwide numbers, Dr. Steve Rathbun, the
acting head of the biostatistics department at the University of
Georgia, did a detailed analysis of the numbers provided by state
authorities for 2004 and 2005.
...Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for
America: "Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the
bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged."
UPDATE: Excellent point by Bill Sweetman, over at Ares -- and many of
the commenters over here.
In the US, male veterans outnumber female veterans 13:1. Since four
times as many males as women commit suicide in the general
population, you'd expect the rate among veterans to be close to the
rate among males - 17.6/100,000 per year in 2002 - and indeed it is,
if the CBS raw numbers are correct.
CBS also makes an issue of the fact that suicide rates among younger
veterans exceed that of the general population by an even bigger
margin - but again, that's what you'd expect, because in that age
group, the male-to-female imbalance in suicide rates is greatest,
almost six to one.
Suicide is tragedy. What it does not seem to be, among veterans, is
an epidemic.
UPDATE 2: RedState.com jumps in with an even more detailed -- and
more convincing -- analysis.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=29924§ionid=351020601
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/120-veteran-sui.html
"At least 6,256 Americans who served in the military committed
suicide in 2005... a staggering rate of 120 suicides a week,"
according to CBS. That's "a rate twice that of other Americans."
CBS' Evening News has a two-parter on veteran suicides, starting
tonight. It contains some pretty horrific numbers:
* Veterans aged 20-24, who are those most likely to have served
during the War on Terror, are killing themselves when they return
home at rates estimated to be between 2.5 and almost 4 times higher
than non-vets in the same age group. (22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000 people
as compared to just 8.3 per 100,000 for non-vets).
* Overall, those who have served in the military were more than twice
as likely to take their own life in 2005, than Americans who never
served. (18.7-20.8 per 100,000 as compared to 8.9 per 100,000).
...The CBS News Investigative Unit, led by producer Pia Malbran,
contacted all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death
records, for vets and non-vets dating back to 1995. Beyond the first-
ever collection of raw nationwide numbers, Dr. Steve Rathbun, the
acting head of the biostatistics department at the University of
Georgia, did a detailed analysis of the numbers provided by state
authorities for 2004 and 2005.
...Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans for
America: "Not everyone comes home from the war wounded, but the
bottom line is nobody comes home unchanged."
UPDATE: Excellent point by Bill Sweetman, over at Ares -- and many of
the commenters over here.
In the US, male veterans outnumber female veterans 13:1. Since four
times as many males as women commit suicide in the general
population, you'd expect the rate among veterans to be close to the
rate among males - 17.6/100,000 per year in 2002 - and indeed it is,
if the CBS raw numbers are correct.
CBS also makes an issue of the fact that suicide rates among younger
veterans exceed that of the general population by an even bigger
margin - but again, that's what you'd expect, because in that age
group, the male-to-female imbalance in suicide rates is greatest,
almost six to one.
Suicide is tragedy. What it does not seem to be, among veterans, is
an epidemic.
UPDATE 2: RedState.com jumps in with an even more detailed -- and
more convincing -- analysis.