Suicide in United States Army Personnel, 1981–1982

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Abstract
A third biennium of epidemiological data on suicide in the US Army was compiled with the same method as was used previously.1–3 The annual crude suicide rate per 100,000 soldiers-at-risk for 1981–82 was found to be 11.2, a drop of 0.4 points from where it stood in 1979–80. Sex-specific, race-specific, age-specific, grade-specific, and marital status-specific rates were studied, and can be compared with the same indices in the previous three bienna. Demographic data and information on circumstances surrounding the suicidal act were also made available for comparison with previous data. Analysis of the suicidal person's psychosocial situation (as reflected in the kinds of personal problems recorded in the reports and investigations of the incident and as reflected in assessment made of the victim's pre-suicidal “motivational state”) showed remarkable consistency in the four time-periods studied, and points unflinchingly to a love-object dyadic relationship at total collapse.

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