soldier kills herself after failing emt exam

this is getting off topic but you can now enlist with asthma so long as it is controlled. When I was going through AIT there was a male stabbed in the jaw for stealing an iPod another purely isolate incident but training accidnet happen all the time in the military.
 
Hmm, when I tried to sign up last September, all of the recruiters pretty much dropped me like a hot potato when they found out I had asthma. They said only if you haven't had to use a rescue inhaler since 12 or 13 y/o. I use advair every day to control it, and have rarely had to use my albuterol.

Edit: What I mean is, I had heard the same thing, that they were now letting asthmatics in, so I tried to enlist.
 
Afflixin can you comment on your personal experience...

...with active duty suicides?
In PEACETIME the troop dependents suicide rate in Nebraska was four times the local rate, per a local mortician, at the time (late 1970's).
 
well i have a friend that is currently in with athletes asthma and the army was fully aware of it...
 
MD suicide

There's a well documented high suicide rate among MDs, and I'll never forget a first year resident who committed suicide at in teh basement of the hospital where I worked. He was adept, well adjusted, well liked and deeply empathic: Consensus was that the last trait finished him off.
 
That is a very sad and tragic thing for her family to go through but I highly doubt that failure was the only reason. People do not just wake up one day and decide that if one certain thing goes wrong they are going to end it. There are many contributing factors and a long history of mental illness. Research has also shown that while men are more likely to succeed at an attempt the first time, women do not and have a history of attempts.
 
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