Apparently They Prefer Death To Dishonor

US Army Suicides Continue at Record Pace

"The U.S. Army reported Tuesday that the number of suicides among soldiers this year has already equaled the number for all of last year, and so will rise for the fifth consecutive year, in spite of a major effort to combat the trend. The Army's number two officer says he is significantly short of the type of professionals who could help reverse the trend.
The vice chief of the Army, General Peter Chiarelli was frank about the latest statistics.
"This is horrible, and I do not want to downplay the significance of these numbers in any way," he said.
The general reported there have been 140 suicides among active duty soldiers this year, and another 71 among reservists and members of the National Guard, some of whom had been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan."

Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group

"According to a soldiers’ advocacy group at Fort Hood, the U.S. base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are “definitely” too low."