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Even after spending tens of millions of dollars on suicide research and prevention programs, our Pentagon concedes it still does not know the reasons our military suicide rate has increased so rapidly. In 2019, the rate of suicide among active-duty troops was 25.9 per 100,000 troops, and this rate has showed a steady increase from 2014, when it was about 18.5 per 100,000 service members. The active-duty Army has seen a 30% increase in 2020 in deaths by suicide, from 88 deaths by suicide in 2019 to 114