Tag Archive: military suicide

Oct 06 2012

Army launches official investigation into mandatory candlelight prayer

Spiritual Fitness Guide page 1

The shocking mandatory ‘spiritual fitness’ and candlelight prayer at 264th Medical Battalion has received national media attention. Public Affairs for Fort Sam Houston released a statement to the press indicating that an official investigation has been launched. The right way to do damage control “The entire AMEDD Center and School was undergoing Suicide Prevention Awareness, Education …

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Jul 24 2012

Why the US Military’s suicide statistics are dead wrong

dod suicide rates by service 2001 2008

I’ve seen way too many people regurgitate flawed stats regarding suicide rates in the US Military. It seems that the DoD and / or defense-policy think-tanks have created some palatable ‘synthetic data’. Going back to the 2001-2008 time period, this study seems to be a typical example. It’s from RAND, a large think-tank currently funded by the …

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