U.S. military’s millennials at greatest risk for suicide [WashingtonTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 12/8/1512:00 PM

The U.S. military’s historically high suicide rate is more a generational trait than a wartime offshoot, as millennial recruits join up carrying emotional baggage, a new research paper says.

The Pentagon says that the group most at risk of committing suicide is white males under 24 years old — which just happens to fit the profile of virtually all enlisted recruits.

[For more of this story, written by Rowan Scarborough, go to http://www.washingtontimes.com...atest-risk-for-suic/]

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