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megaman · 4111 days ago · link · · parent · post: US Military suicides continue to climb, reaching record highs in 2012
There was a recent controversy when an independent blogger unveiled an inconsistency between some army records regarding suicide rates. The army tries and minimize deaths recorded as "suicide" by registering them as "unknown cause" or "killed in duty", with the intention of maintaining a healthy image in the public sphere (at least that's that blogger's accusation). So while the published rate might be lower, the actual number might be the same, or higher then, recent years.