Pak Sahafat – The US Department of Defense recently released a report stating that suicide among US servicemen has reached its highest level since 1938 and that most of those who committed suicide were women.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency on Tuesday, The Washington Post wrote in a report: Suicide has been a major cause of death among US troops since the 9/11 attacks.
More than 30,000 US troops have committed suicide during a period in which about 7,000 members of the US military have lost their lives in combat or training exercises.
According to the US Department of Defense, military suicide rates rose to 7% in 2020, up from 4% a decade earlier. About one in six soldiers who commit suicide are women.
Last month, three sailors aboard the US Navy’s USS George Washington in less than a week, one of them a woman.
“Melissa Dichter, an associate professor at the School of Aid at Temple University, who published a report on female suicide in the US military this year, said: Women in the military learn to be strong in male-dominated positions.
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Dichter realized that when female veterans try to gain support in the civilian world, the story of war and corpses and bombs does not create strings of affection.
He looked at more than a million unidentified phone calls to the veterans’ crisis line and found that about 53 percent of women who called the line were at risk of suicide, compared with 41 percent of men.
Dichter realized an important point: While men were more likely to struggle with drug use and addiction, more women were exposed to sexual violence.
This was the case that eventually led Tannick Richard to commit suicide, the trauma of war and rape that he had never reported.
Richard survived, and after consulting a nightmare consultant, it was not just because of the night his helicopter came under fire in Iraq.
Women in the US military struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and isolation to such an extent that it has its own military acronym called Military Sexual Trauma (MST).
This is a unique form of abuse. This is not like being attacked by a stranger or a villain. Your comrades are supposed to support you in battle. Imagine the danger and insecurity for any military when it feels it has been attacked by a comrade. This is a common theme among women who ask for help.