{"id":34104,"date":"2012-08-18T01:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_army_suicide_rate_in_july_hits_highest_one-month_tally\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T01:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T01:24:59","slug":"usa_today_army_suicide_rate_in_july_hits_highest_one-month_tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34104","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Army suicide rate in July hits highest one-month tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers killed themselves at a rate faster than one per day in July, the Army announced Thursday. There were 38 deaths either confirmed or suspected as suicides, the highest one-month tally in recent Army history, the service said.<\/p>\n<p>The Army suicide pace this year is surpassing last year, particularly among active-duty soldiers where there is a 22% increase \u201d\u201d 116 deaths so far this year vs. 95 during the same seven months last year, according to Army data.<\/p>\n<p>The current Army suicide rate seven months into this year is 29 deaths-per-100,000, far surpassing last year&#8217;s rate of about 23 deaths-per-100,000, says Bruce Shahbaz, an Army analyst. Those rates compare with a 2009 civilian rate \u201d\u201d the latest available data \u201d\u201d of 18.5 for a demographically similar population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/story\/2012-08-09\/army-suicides\/57096238\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers killed themselves at a rate faster than one per day in July, the Army announced Thursday. There were 38 deaths either confirmed or suspected as suicides, the highest one-month tally in recent Army history, the service said. The Army<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34104\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,104,141,129,603,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-health-medicine","category-iraq-war","category-psychology","category-suicide","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}