More Needs to Be Done to Combat Military Suicides, Expert Says

U.S. soldiers attend an inauguration ceremony by transforming the Area Support Group Poland into the permanent U.S. Army Garrison Poland, at Camp Kosciuszko in Poznan, Poland, on March 21, 2023. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images

The number of suicides among servicemembers has increased in the past decade. Although the number of deaths went down in 2022, there remains a variety of other issues that need to be addressed before significant change can truly occur, according to an expert.

Last month, the Department of Defenses (DOD) released its annual report on suicide in the military for 2022. The number of suicides gradually increased from 2011 to 2022 for all services, dipping slightly in 2022 when compared with the previous year.