20 January 2011

Breaking down the Army's suicide data

Part I: What does the data say?

There's a lot of grist to Wednesday's news briefing with Gen. Chiarelli on the 2010 Army suicide statistics. As usual, everything I write is my own opinion, unvarnished.

Looking past the headlines telling you some suicides were up and some where down I want to point out an underemphasized point that Gen. Chiarelli made during his briefing:
So the numbers [...] have really only focused on this group, both the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, to collect this data for about five years.