They lost their sense of purpose and life looses any meaning for them. Some start a youtube career but many will never be able to find a reason to exist after what they experienced. Especially since nobody cares and no effort is taken to bring them back into society.

Because they aren't mostly women.

Soldiers are expendable duh /s

So people commit more suicide because they're softer? Violence when it's justified? Tell me, how many justifiable wars has the US joined in the last 10 years? Seems like you don't really appreciate your veterans.

Could be... more likely its whatever they did in the wars, that just f***ed them up though.

I doubt I could bring myself to take anothers life.

Its a tough thing you ask of these soldiers.

Perhaps they can help the veterans with an even longer word in even softer language to hide/cloud the pain/problems war situations can trigger: 

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From "shell shock" to "battle fatigue" to "combat stress reaction" to "operational exhaustion" to "post-traumatic stress disorder" to "???"

It's going to get worse under Beloved Leader's Hellcare plan; insurance companies weren't obligated to cover mental health care until the ACA went into effect and Republicare removes that obligation. The US government never considered suicide prevention as a high priority but the current regime seems to consider suicide a cost-effective alternative to mental health treatment. Human life holds little value to them and their soldiers are considered disposable assets.

I doubt that there are a lot of people who are aware of this problem.

I only know about this because of Five Finger Death Punch.

This is a hard one to get a handle on.  It's 21 percent higher than civilians.  How much is linked directly with being in the military and how much has to do with recruiting people with a higher risk?  Is it because of service or is it because of people having trouble adjusting when they leave?  Not enough information in these little news blurbs, really.

Also, what's with the comments about the government trying to keep this quiet?  This is literally an article about the government releasing the results of a study on the problem--a problem which has been reported on many times in the past.  

At least read the article.

"And roughly 65 percent of all veteran suicides in 2014 were for individuals 50 years or older, many of whom spent little or no time fighting in the most recent wars."

And what's the lack of proper healthcare?  70 percent of those who committed suicide were not regular users of VA healthcare.  What exactly do you think they should do about it?

Also, reputable source on Obama trying to "do away with vets' healthcare".

Not much they can do, these people are what they are. Id bet Average jar head would at some pit commit suicide, military service just intensifies their problems the issues they already had.

These days people just don't have the mental fortitude to do such things, Gramps was in ww2 and then worked the fields 14 hours a day 7 days a week till he was in his mid 70s and lives till 80 something. Modern snowflakes would off them selves after about a week of his life.