In One of the Marines’ Most Iconic Jobs, a Stunning Pattern of Suicide
Military.com | By Kelsey Baker and Drew F. Lawrence
Feb 11, 2025
“Logan Sowell’s suicide in July 2021 is one of at least seven in the past five years involving the Marine Corps’ stable of drill instructors, according to military casualty reports obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. In 2023, three occurred at Parris Island within less than three months.”
“A study completed by the Marine Corps in 2019 found that during the previous decade, 29 drill instructors either ended their lives or openly acknowledged they had contemplated doing so — an aberration the study’s authors characterized as startlingly high compared with the occurrence of suicidal ideation among Marines who had never held that job. Rates of addiction and divorce among drill instructors also were higher, researchers found.”
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Marine Corps Drill Instructors
Welcome Home Troops
Some mental health providers in Hampton Roads pause taking military clients after payment delays
WHRO | By Steve Walsh
Feb 11, 2025
“We acknowledge that our typical timeframes for processing claims have been delayed as a result of this major system transition, however, a very small percentage of claims submitted have gone beyond our contractual payment timeframe of 30 days,” said Nan Frient, a spokesman with Humana.
“Ashworth remembers in 2017, the government revamped its contracts with private healthcare services, which created payment delays that went on for more than half of the year.”
Task & Purpose
PATTY NIEBERG, JEFF SCHOGOL
Feb 10, 2025
$571 million in VA spending on suicide prevention isn’t working, vets groups say
“Veteran advocates are asking for accountability on how the Department of Veterans Affairs uses its $571 million suicide prevention budget, and whether those efforts are working.”
Several comments are posted with the article above.
From comments:
“1 many Drs are focused on pushing meds instead of seaking alt. treatments. Until that changes nothing changes. I had to fight the battle alone as I didn’t want meds and the Drs kept pushing meds and I refused them. I just gave up on seeing Drs as we were never on the same page”
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