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The Self-destruction cases in the Military Services

In all of the active duty suicide cases between years 2003 and 2009 there were cases of 94.4% males with modal age 21. In this total fact figure, the 83.3% were the active component, the 74.3% were Caucasian, 69.3% had one or more deployments, 57.1% were enlisted junior, 52.1% were married, and 20.7% were in the infantry, 67.5% were died by self-gunshot, 19.8 were by hanging themselves and 4.6% were by overdose of drugs and alcohol. As per the records the military suicide rate significantly always has been observed lower than the civilians’ suicide rate i.e. about 19.2 per 100,000 people (demographically adjusted). Yet the suicide and accidental death rates began trending upward between 2004 and 2008; the Army suicide rate crested above the national average and reached to the record of 20.2 per 100,000 people. It has been observed about the veterans those who are aged from 20 to 24 and serve majorly into the wars are living into full terror situations. This is the reason for highest suicide rate among all veterans and it estimated to be between 2 to 4 times higher than civilians of the same age. On the other hand, the suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000 as compared to the rate of veterans i.e. 22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000. In every suicide death that happened in year 2009 at least 5 members of the armed forces were hospitalized for their suicide attempts.According to the reports by Navy Times it was the 2 percent of Army, 3 percent of Navy and 2.3 percent of Marines those were respondents to the military survey of 28,536 soldiers from all the military branches having suicidal attempts at some points in life. The CBS study 2007 records the suicide rate among male veterans those are aged 20 to 24 at 4 times the national average which is more than 40 per 100,000 veterans in a year.In the year 2010 it was researched by The Department of Veterans Affairs that the suicide rate among 17 to 29 year aged male veterans jumped to 26 % between the period of 2005 and 2007.Thus, by counting the average of all, 18 veterans become victim to suicide case each day. Andrew Manalis.