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I wonder how much of this might be because combat is relatively less deadly than in wars before Vietnam.

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“For the second year in a row, more American soldiers—both enlisted men and women and veterans—committed suicide than were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

This has happened in every US war starting with Vietnam.

One of my little brother’s very first duties in the army was suicide watch.  His fellow soldiers were trying to steal ammo to take their own lives.  None of them had even finished their basic training.  Not even deployed to a war zone.  Just their first few weeks at an army base in GA.