re: Dafuq is Going on with this Aircraft Carrier?

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It's not the ship, it's the newer, softer, more pussified generation of sailors that can't deal with having to live in a berthing onboard.

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From 1938, with a rate of 40 per 100?000 service members, suicide rates among active-duty personnel in the US Army decreased to a low of 5 per 100?000 service members in 1945 (Figure).

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This is an Army statistic, but considering it dropped from 40 to 5 per 100k from the beginning of the war (or right before the start of the war in 1938) to the end of the war, I sense some cooking of the books to make the number smaller to not disrupt morale.

But compare that high of 40 to now.

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Nineteen out of every 100,000 sailors died by suicide in 2020, compared to members of the Army, which had the highest rate, at about 36 per 100,000, Pentagon statistics show.

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