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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12428185/ repro in fair trade blah blah blah
Article is kinda lenghty to post so here's an excerpt
The only thing that bothers me is that soldiers are screened for mental disability/disorders before joining. That means in my understanding,
our(military) suicide figures DO NOT include those who are mentally ill or unstable like the civlian figures do. THUS, we are breaking/losing an even
larger number of people that would not have commited suicide in the normal world. So our figures are kinda fudged here because we don't
have the mentally ill patients or people pre disposed to it in our figure. Take them out of the civilian figures (because we don't have them to equal things up)
and that means our suicide rate is higher.
Man.. its 0017 hrs.. i hope this makes sense...
i reserve the right to re read and change it tomorrow.
Article is kinda lenghty to post so here's an excerpt
Many served in Iraq
Of the confirmed suicides last year, 25 were soldiers deployed to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — which amounts to 40 percent of the 64 suicides by Army soldiers in Iraq since the conflict began in March 2003.
The suicide rate for the Army has fluctuated over the past 25 years, from a high of 15.8 per 100,000 in 1985 to a low of 9.1 per 100,000 in 2001. Last year it was nearly 13 per 100,000.
The Army recorded 90 suicides in 1993, with a suicide rate of 14.2 per 100,000.
The Army rate is higher than the civilian suicide rate for 2003, which was 10.8 per 100,000, according to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the Army number tracked closely with the rate for civilians aged 18-34, which was 12.19 per 100,000 in 2003.
The only thing that bothers me is that soldiers are screened for mental disability/disorders before joining. That means in my understanding,
our(military) suicide figures DO NOT include those who are mentally ill or unstable like the civlian figures do. THUS, we are breaking/losing an even
larger number of people that would not have commited suicide in the normal world. So our figures are kinda fudged here because we don't
have the mentally ill patients or people pre disposed to it in our figure. Take them out of the civilian figures (because we don't have them to equal things up)
and that means our suicide rate is higher.
Man.. its 0017 hrs.. i hope this makes sense...
i reserve the right to re read and change it tomorrow.