Veteran Suicides Up. The Veteran Bureaucrat Stymied As To Why.

This is a little item hot off the Ass Ass He Ate It press.

"By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer – 50 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who've left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday.
The rate for these veterans went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to preliminary data from the Veterans Affairs Department. It's assumed that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
If there is a bright spot in the data, it's that in 2007 veterans in the group who used VA health care were less likely to commit suicide than those who did not. That's a change from 2005.
The military in recent years has struggled as well with an increase in suicides, with the Army seeing a record number last year. While the military frequently releases such data, it has been more difficult to track suicide information on veterans once they've left active duty.
The VA calculated the numbers using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers from 16 states. In 2005, the rate per 100,000 veterans among men ages 18-29 was 44.99, compared with 56.77 in 2007, the VA said. It did not release data for other population groups.
The VA and the military have sought to more aggressively tackle the problem in recent years with measures ranging from a suicide hot line to educational campaigns.
At a conference on Monday in Washington dedicated to addressing the issue, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said his agency needs to do a better job understanding what led to each suicide. He said he'd also like to see more stringent protocol put into place at VA facilities about how to handle a potentially suicide veteran, similar to what's done with someone who's having a heart attack.
He noted that of the 30,000 suicides each year in America, about 20 percent are committed by veterans.
"Why do we know so much about suicides but still know so little about how to prevent them?" Shinseki said. "Simple question but we continue to be challenged." "

Eric Shinseki is at a complete loss to explain any of this. he "continues to be challenged." Like any reetard would be. However he is going to try and figure it out. Naturally the reporter had no problem with any of this and didn't bother to ask Shin Sucker why he still had a job. Because the Assmasturbated Press reporter knew the answer to that. The answer being, like Associate Press employees, Shinsuckup is in the employ of Congress, and those guys ain't in a hurry to solve problems otherwise there would be no need for people to look for them to solve problems. So anyway, Shinseki is just baffled. Hey, baffled fuck: maybe sending youngsters to kill people and then telling them they can't really kill people but have to dodge bullets and turn tail and hide and stand in the line of fire but not shoot back, maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe these youngsters having to blow the head off some 5 year old coming at them with ten tons of shrapnel-filled explosives and then sending them to jail instead of telling them "Good job, soldier, you just saved the next generation of Americans from having to deal with that Muslim piece of shit when he grew up. Thanks to you he won't grow up. Good job, son!".....Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe sending them into a battle where the enemy is the general population, and the general population is the enemy army and refuses to wear war-gear because that would put them at a disadvantage and lower their life expectancy, and then when the American fighter kills everyone in the general population since they are all trying to kill him, and then he is court martialed and sent to prison or worse for having fought for my lazy ass.....maybe that has something to do with him killing himself when he gets back here. Why do you have a job, Shinsukee??? You can even admit "I have no idea why this is happening and don't expect to ever know," and fear no reprisal or consequence from your bosses. Pretty good deal, prick. How do I get your job. How come YOU ain't committing suicide just for being so fucking worthless as an employee? These American combatants are killing the wrong people, killing themselves. Someone is lying to them and telling them that they themselves are the enemy. They must be pretty good liars because a lot of American soldiers are buying into it. I want to go to that lying-lessons academy: there's a few people I'd like to trick into killing themselves. And it ain't American soldiers doing a fine job of snuffing the lives out of Muslims. For which I wish i could thank them personally, each and every one. I know if I was President I would be at every war front daily, personally congratulating the members of the American War Machine and not tapping golf balls into the little aluminum
ball-catcher in the middle of the White Hutch hallway.