Katie COuric and SeeBS news are doing a thing this week about how many soldiers are killing themselves upon being sent home. I thought to myself, “ yep I’m sure they are killing themselves in record numbers due to your malevolent actions Ms. Couric. You have made them feel badly about themselves and their service to a nation who is by your portrayal ungrateful to them. ALL OF YOU IN THE DRIVE-BY MEDIA ARE COMPLICIT IN THEIR DEATHS !!!!
because of your post, I went looking and found this......it is baloney, and here is why:
“...the civilian rate for the same age and gender mix as in the Army is 19 to 20 per 100,000 people.”
There is not a single figure in the article that equals or exceeds this rate if you extrapolate honestly, which the authors and their suicide-industry cohorts did not do. Their purpose is to mislead, and it is easy to do with a bunch of apple-to-orange statements, esp couched in a tug-at-your-apron-strings setting as this article!
Combine the Iraq and Afghanistan troop strengths and extrapolate for one year and you will not find a rate equal to or exceeding the civilian rate adjusted for age and sex, period.