The Guard hit headlines following the release of the report last year, which – based on the2018 calendar year– indicated that the Guard's suicide numbers were not only higher than other services and reserve elements but had surpassed the general U.S. population in the same age category. "...
If I’d joined the Reserves, I would’ve drilled until20 total Good Years(active combined with Reserve) to earn the pension. I would have had an inflation-fighting pension (and Tricare) at age 60 instead of at age 41. The Reserve pension would’ve been about 70% of my active-duty p...
And while the 2020 numbers for the U.S. population have not been released, the data from 2019 shows that the suicide rates for service members in the active component, Reserve, and National Guard are comparable to the U.S. population after accounting for age and sex, Orvis said. Orvis sa...