the risk factors
915
57%
Were under age 25
ACTIVE-DUTY NON FATAL
SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN 2011:
64%
Had a known behavorial
health disorder
241
Air Force
46%
86
Had a known failure
of an intimate or
spousal relationship
Navy
75%
156
Were male
Marines
64%
432
Involved misuse of
prescription drugs
Army
301
ACTIVE-DUTY FATAL
SUICIDES IN 2011:
59%
Had no history of deployment
to Iraq or Afghanistan
Of those who did deploy, percent
with no direct combat experience
SOURCE: RAND REPORT, THE WAR WITHIN: PREVENTING SUICIDE IN THE U.S. MILITARY
Disability compensation payments from the VA keep the family afloat financially, but only just.
The future they’d imagined, one of
promotions and pay raises, is gone.
Jackie has moved away from her
role as wife and settled into a role
she describes as more of a manager
82.9%
of her husband, one “which is uncomfortable for me,” she allowed.
Mike’s headaches are constant
and occasionally erupt into blinding migraines that drive him to his
knees. Jackie has fought with doctors who’ve changed his medications and not told her.
“My brother used to say, ‘Why do
you stay with him?’” Jackie said one
day. “Because the man I married