{"id":38392,"date":"2013-11-12T17:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38392"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:27:01","slug":"military-suicides-drop-but-not-far-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38392","title":{"rendered":"Military suicides drop, but not far enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/military-suicides-drop-but-the-reason-why-is-still-unclear-1.252535\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that military suicides have dropped 22% over last year&#8217;s 316 for the same period to 245 this year. That&#8217;s good news, but not good enough. Especially since the services, which all realized a drop, aren&#8217;t sure why;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Military officials, however, were reluctant to pin the decline on the broad swath of detection and prevention efforts, acknowledging that they still don\u2019t fully understand why troops take their own lives. And since many of those who have committed suicide in recent years had never served on the warfront, officials also do not attribute the decrease to the end of the Iraq war and the drawdown in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they offered some hope that after several years of studies, the escalating emphasis on prevention across all the services may finally be taking hold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The suicide rate among the troops peaked last year, but the rate also increased among all American males 25 years old to 64 since 2000 according to the CDC, so it only seems natural to me that the military would reflect the same increase. Especially since the folks committing suicide usually aren&#8217;t combat veterans. Whatever caused this decrease, I hope it continues to get better, but Mikey Moore isn&#8217;t helping when he Tweets out messages like he did yesterday;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38393\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mikey-Moore-Tweet-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"Mikey Moore Tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mikey-Moore-Tweet-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mikey-Moore-Tweet-500x148.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mikey-Moore-Tweet.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that military suicides have dropped 22% over last year&#8217;s 316 for the &hellip; <a title=\"Military suicides drop, but not far enough\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38392\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military suicides drop, but not far enough<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}