Posted on Jan 12, 2023
'Stick Around, We Need You': The Navy's Top Officer Opens Up About His Worry Over Suicide
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The Navy's top uniformed officer told a packed crowd of largely fellow Navy leaders and retired officers that one of the biggest problems that keeps him up at night is not Ukraine or Russia but the service's suicide problem.
"I think it's the same thing that keeps [the master chief petty officer of the Navy] awake at night: It's suicides," Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, told an auditorium of more than a hundred people at the annual Surface Navy Association conference held in Arlington, Virginia.
"I think it's the same thing that keeps [the master chief petty officer of the Navy] awake at night: It's suicides," Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, told an auditorium of more than a hundred people at the annual Surface Navy Association conference held in Arlington, Virginia.
'Stick Around, We Need You': The Navy's Top Officer Opens Up About His Worry Over Suicide
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Mental Health
Suicide
Leadership
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Lt Col Charlie Brown This is so sad that so many of our members in uniform are committing suicide. We need to be worried about this.
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Excellent post. Thank You for sharing this Colonel. Very serious subject. I knew two Specialists who committed suicide in 2012 when Our unit came back from Ghazni. They didn't show any signs either.
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One of the biggest problems with suicide is as a society we have let suicide be an acceptable option for dealing with problems. Telling someone that committing suicide only pushes the pain onto someone else and if you are military that makes you a blue falcon, well this talk is not acceptable. If you can get people to admit they have considered suicide, ask them what kept them from doing it. Afghanistan was rough but I would not do that to my parents.
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