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Military suicides in COVID era hit a new high FacebookTwitterEmail Mayra Beltran /Chronicle Suicides across the armed services rose sharply in the first year of the coronavirus, hitting a record 571 deaths in 2020, but a Pentagon official and others say the stress of the pandemic isn’t the likely culprit. Just what is behind the steady rise during years of Defense Department efforts to reduce self-inflicted deaths baffles experts, a mystery nowhere near being solved. The latest mark, released in a report last week, was above the 503 suicides recorded in 2019 and the previous record of 543 s...

Army of soldiers' mental health issues. and what they're looking at specifically is what are the mental health conditions that people bring into the army when they enlist? very, very important, but often overlooked part of this whole story. what they found is that about one out of five soldiers who enlist in the army have some kind of existing mental health issue. adhd, for example. anxiety, depression. those kinds of things. fairly common ailments. but what was really disturbing is they found that 8% of new recruits in the army come in with something called intermittent explosive disorder. wh...

Gregg: well the pentagon is now testing a new program now that women have the same opportunities to serve in combat as men. military commanders are turning to science to find the best soldier for the job. jonathan serrie live in our atlanta bureau with more. jonathan? >> hi, gregg. well the army wants to develop an objective test, given at the recruit phase to determine whether a soldier has the physical capabilities of serving in a combat role. the timing of this is important because the military has been ordered to begin integrating women into combat roles in 2016. at fort stewart, dozens of...