Army Suicides at 3-Decade High

Around twenty suicides per one hundred thousand soldiers have been reported by officials. Even though the army has increased training, prevention programs and psychiatric staff suicides continue.
Individual cases have revealed the most common factors for suicides were soldiers suffering problems with their personal relationships, legal or financial issues and problems on the job.
The military spends millions of dollars a year on munitions. If I was a betting man I would put my money on the fact that just a fraction of that amount is spent on mental health.
There are many reasons why our military members are killing themselves. I want you to know through first hand experience that going to mental health for help puts a flag on your career. I would have shot myself before going to mental health and I am not joking.
The military spends millions of dollars and probably more teaching us how to kill but spends very little on teaching us to manage our personal affairs and to reconcile our belief systems.
You cannot get any satisfactory answers. You have no where to turn. Do not tell us to turn to God because obviously for 20 out of 100,000 of us it does not work.
So we go out and womanize, drink, drug, write bad checks, and fight anyone around us. This causes problems at home, with the legal system, and on the job. The training we receive in the above areas are minimal and of a generic nature. Even if we are not deployed to a war zone we can still have these problems because we are human. Some of us finally figure it out and can live with our past. Others turn to pills, guns, and automobile accidents. What ever it takes to end it all.
Unfortunately the world outside the military is no smarter. There are people that think they no. They tell you what to do and collect thousands of dollars but there still are no answers. How can someone that has never experienced what the troops have experienced help them? I have no answers either I am still working through my own demons. Until next time.
Norm