Thanks for sharing. It inspired me to read more into the article. All we really get from it is that there has been a drop in combat deaths. I'm not a fan of the

Thanks for sharing. It inspired me to read more into the article. All we really get from it is that there has been a drop in combat deaths. I'm not a fan of the military but this article is just white noise. There's no denominator or basis for understanding what the numbers mean. If we're looking to investigate suicides in the military then we need to compare it against appropriate baselines, accounting for the types of issues daveloyall raises, and even the economy. Here's wikipedia's suicide rates for comparison: US Men: 19.2 US Women: 5.5 Military: 17.1 What surprises me is that the military suicide rate in combat zones (17.3) is lower than military in the US (19.2)