Report: Slight Decline In Active Duty Military Suicides In 2021
Majority of active service members who died by suicide were young men
View Source | October 21, 2022 10:23 am
- Active duty military suicides totaled 519 for 2021, a slight decline from 582 in 2020.
- “There is an increasing trend for all services between 2011 and 2021,” said Liz Clark, director of the DOD Suicide Prevention Office. “In the short term, the Army rate [of suicides] was similar to last year, and there was a decrease with the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Air Force. The Air Force was the only statistically significant decrease.”
- Of the active service members who died by suicide, the majority were young men.
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