http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/17/us-usa-military-suicides-idUSBREA3G2EK20140417
The only thing that will keep our military from fighting for 12+ years is to stop fighting everyone else's wars or increase the number of military so that the same ones don't deploy time after time after time. The Ops Tempo for some units is incredibly high. When I was on active duty, if we deployed once a year or two it was a lot. Now units are gone 250+ days EACH year. And our leaders are surprised...go figure.
The only thing that will keep our military from fighting for 12+ years is to stop fighting everyone else's wars or increase the number of military so that the same ones don't deploy time after time after time. The Ops Tempo for some units is incredibly high. When I was on active duty, if we deployed once a year or two it was a lot. Now units are gone 250+ days EACH year. And our leaders are surprised...go figure.