Comments on Suicide isn't Just for Terrorist Bombers

That's really sad :-( What a tragedy, on so many levels.

While I wish nobody committed sucide this is kindof meaningless without including the sucide rate from the same demographic of the population (of the USA) as a whole. Anybody know?

Dumb question:

What's the protocol for those who attempt suicide in the U.S. Military? Is that a free ticket out of Iraq? For how long?

@Mr. Poe: depends on how severe it is. Most times they just put you on suicide watch and take your weapons away. Which is awesome in a war-zone.

So very, very sad. I remember one service member that killed a bunch of his officers, and then himself. Fucked up.

I didn't find the answer to my question but Wikpedia lists countries by suicide rate. 20 countries have a higher rate than is quoted in the article. Does that mean its more depressing to be a citizen of Switzerland, (18.4 suicides/100,000) than it is to be a US soldier (17.3 suicides/100,000)?

Maybe it just means that taking some statistic out of context and trying to prove some point is silly.

Can we leave NOW?

Um, isn't it also the most common deployment location PERIOD?

Yet another instance of the US military doing the insurgents' job for them.