Rooney is a traitor. He should mention that during the Clinton years the army went from 17/18 Divisions down to 10. Therefore, more jobs were lost out of the military than anyone is able to put back into it.
So far as the # of suicides is concerned, I was a chaplain in the Army....a professional counselor for them. The rate fluctuated year by year....and it is not statistically significantly different. NOTICE: He didn't mention how many committed suicide in other units in the Army NOT involved in Iraq .... in short, he gives us numbers and not the Armywide rate. I have included a piece below that says the rate for GIs in Iraq is 15.8. Statistics -- they don't say what the overall Army rate is. Would you be surprised to learn that the rate climbed during the year long deployments to Bosnia/Kosovo? Why? My guess would be clinical/chronic depression + some significant losses that occurred in the lives of those long-term deployed soldiers. (Lost marriages, fiancees, businesses, careers, etc.) The so-called 11.9 rate for the 8 year period listed -- how many think it was 11.9 each year for an average of 11.9? Not many? Good. It probably had a low of about 10 and a high of about 14.
Rooney is a traitor who is attempting to destroy the morale of Americans, soldier and civilian alike.
Since the war in Iraq began in March 2003, 24 soldiers have committed suicide, an average of about two per month. The suicide rate for Army soldiers in Iraq in 2003 was 15.8 per 100,000, an increase from the Army average of 12.2 for 2003 and 11.9 from 1995-2002. That rate was still below the national average of 21.5 suicides per 100,000 for males ages 20-34, which roughly matches the age range of the bulk of the soldiers in Iraq.
Just the answer to the quesiton I wanted to ask.