"I can’t be focused on 'oh, so and so passed away yesterday,' or 'oh, we almost got blown up yesterday…', you take those feelings and shove them down and never come back to them - compartmentalize them.”ĭata from the Pentagon reveals in 2020 these were the top military installations with the highest rates of active-duty suicides. “In a deployed environment you really cannot think about that stuff, 'If I am on a mission there are thousands of other things I have to be attentive to,'" Johnson said. But active-duty troops still could lose leave time, be un-promotable, or be placed on a 48-hour medical hold if they reveal to a behavioral health specialist thoughts of suicide.
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