Comparing the two units may provide an answer.
We used to worry about “copy cat” tendencies. Perhaps the best way to handle suicides is by a clampdown on that information.
Overly demonstrating compassion for the life story of the deceased suicide might feed into a copycat syndrome.
The entire psychological autopsy procedure of the military when a suicide takes place feeds into the over demonstration of sympathy.
Even this standdown feeds into it.
I’m not trying to be insensitive, but if one were to treat one military unit suicide by saying,
“I’d really like to kick the SOB’s a$$ for leaving us shorthanded in the XYZ platoon.”
and treat another military unit suicide by saying, “Isn’t it awful how sad the life of Sgt X was.”
would we see a difference in future suicide rate?