Senator Joe Donnelly responded to the Department of Defense (DoD) release of a report today on suicides in the military in 2012. DoD is using an updated method of tracking suicides and, with this new method, determined that 319 active component servicemembers, 73 selected reserve servicemembers, and 130 National Guard members committed suicide in 2012. That is a total of 522 servicemembers who took their own lives in 2012. Donnelly said, “Any servicemember lost to suicide is one too many. These statistics are staggering and warrant a strong response. While there is no one way to prevent suicide, we need to start focusing on consistent mental health screening across the branches because many servicemembers are not being reached outside of the deployment cycle. The Guard and Reserve and those who are serving here at home must have access to mental health screening and resources.” Read more here.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:20:38 +0000
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