At the end of January 2011, the U.S. military released stats that raised some eyebrows, but not nearly as many as it should have. Congress.org reported that there were 434 reported suicides by personnel in active duty in 2010, but when we include the Air Force and Marine Corps (“who do not include any non-mobilized reservists in their numbers”), the Individual Ready Reserve (“a class of reservists…with more than 123,000 people who are not assigned to particular units), and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and had left the service, (who are not included), the total jumps.

According to Congress.org’s piece, “even if such veterans and members of the Individual Ready Reserve are excluded from the suicide statistics, just taking into account the deaths of reservists who were not included in last week’s (January 2011) figures pushes the number of suicides last year (2010) to at least 468. In 2010, there were 462 combat deaths.

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