http://conflicthealth.com/military-suicide-education-pays-off/ Defending Health Against Persecution, Violence, And Armed Conflict Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:29:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://conflicthealth.com/military-suicide-education-pays-off/comment-page-1/#comment-9341 Christopher Albon Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:32:17 +0000 http://conflicthealth.com/?p=1877#comment-9341 Tragically, what happened in your battalion is all too common story. So many military suicides appear to come out of nowhere. There has been a huge push to try to understand and predict suicide risks (rank, service, assignment, relationship, etc...), but so far no big breakthroughs have been made. Personally, I suspect the very characteristics that makes Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines operate so effectively in dangerous environments: stoicism, bravado, determination, etc... also hide many of the symptoms of depression. Tragically, what happened in your battalion is all too common story. So many military suicides appear to come out of nowhere. There has been a huge push to try to understand and predict suicide risks (rank, service, assignment, relationship, etc…), but so far no big breakthroughs have been made. Personally, I suspect the very characteristics that makes Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines operate so effectively in dangerous environments: stoicism, bravado, determination, etc… also hide many of the symptoms of depression.

]]> http://conflicthealth.com/military-suicide-education-pays-off/comment-page-1/#comment-9340 Starbuck Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:13:01 +0000 http://conflicthealth.com/?p=1877#comment-9340 That incident really hit me hard. We had a soldier within our battalion (also 10th Mountain Div in Iraq) who did very much the same thing. Sadly, no one saw it coming, so no one could have removed the bolt from the weapon. That incident really hit me hard. We had a soldier within our battalion (also 10th Mountain Div in Iraq) who did very much the same thing. Sadly, no one saw it coming, so no one could have removed the bolt from the weapon.

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