38 soldiers took their own lives. More casualties than in the battlefield. More than one a day. This is precisely the topic you take on in the, the the invisible wounds of war. Talk about it. Guest first of all, only 1 of our population over 18 is in the army. It is a volume steer army. Which volunteer army. Which means they dont have enough soldiers. Theyre stretched thin. They have too many deployments. Usually you need two years between deployments. Some of them get a year, nine months. At the most and they redeploy when soldiers are having problems with combat stress, they redeploy. Host it is interesting, one of the trend they found is that, increasingly older soldiers are taking their own lives. And were not even talking about veterans right now. Guest well, ill tell you why. Because since it is a volunteer army. Since were stretched so thin, they are calling upon the national guard. Okay, now the national guard, they have civilian jobs. They have children and wives. Their child
guest: my pleasure, too, thank you. host: the invisible wounds of war: coming home from iraq and afghanistan. and what a time to talk about this, what a relevant time. in july the highest rate of suicides that the military has ever seen, 38 soldiers took their own lives. more casualties in the battlefield, more than one a day. this is precisely the topic you take on in the invisible wounds of war. talk about it. guest: well, first of all, um, only 1% of our population over 18 is in the army, and it s a volunteer army which means they don t have enough soldiers, they re stretched thin, they have too many deployments. usually you need two years between deployments, some of them get a year, nine months at the most, you know, even less. so they keep going back. and they redeploy when soldiers are having, um, problems with combat stress. they redeploy. host: you know, it s interesting, one of the trends they found is that increasingly older soldiers are taking their own