The Army is clearly spooked if they’re releasing this kind of info, and understandably so.
The 24 suspected January suicides include seven confirmed and 17 still being investigated. Usually the vast majority of suspected suicides are eventually confirmed, and if that holds true it would mean that self-inflicted deaths surpassed the 16 combat deaths reported in all branches of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan last month.
via Army: Suicides likely jumped last month – Military- msnbc.com.
This just makes me so sad. How horrible it must be to result in people waking up and preferring death to facing another day.