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“This has been the toughest year of my career.”
In late-2016, a fellow squadron commander and close friend was in my office at Yokota Air Base in Japan. Sadly, he was in a familiar, dark place: Leading his airmen through the pain and despair of another suicide. It was the third suicide that year within our base’s maintenance group, part of an epidemic gripping the Air Force, the Department of Defense and American society writ large.
According to the latest annual report released by the Department of Defense in October 2020, from 2015 to 2019, the overall rate of deaths by suicide rose from 20.2 to 25.9 deaths per 100,000. Between 2018 and 2019, the Air Force’s numbers jumped from 18.5 to 25.1 per 100,000. In August 2019, then-Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David Goldfein wrote, “Suicide is an adversary that is killing more of our airmen than any enemy on the planet.” By contrast, through April 27, 2021, the Air Force reported zero uniformed COVID deat