The Pentagon’s annual active duty military suicide report shows how the Army continues to lag behind the other services when it comes to military culture, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
While the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force each saw a decline in suicide rates between 2020 and 2021, and rates for the Reserve and National Guard were similar to 2020, the Army saw a slight increase, according to the report. The new numbers suggest the Army, more than any other service, has a long way to go before achieving the cultural changes service leaders have called for, even as the Army faces the largest recruiting crisis in the military, experts in military affairs told the DCNF….