2021 saw the highest reported rate of suicide in Alaskan soldiers.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Due to the increase in soldier suicides over the last several years, U.S. Army Alaska at Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson have been working to improve the quality of life for soldiers around the state.
More than half of those deaths were reported on Fort Wainwright. The post had the second-highest rate of suicides per capita among all U.S Army facilities last year. Leadership requested assistance from the U.S. Army Public Health Center’s Behavioral and Social Health Outcomes Program to conduct a behavioral health epidemiological consultation to evaluate the situation in 2019.
The report also stated that for over half of the soldier population surveyed, FWA was their first duty station. “So if you’re in the lower 48, and let’s stay you’re stationed at Fort Campbell, you can pretty much drive anywhere in the United States within two or three days,” Colonel Surrey said. “You don’t have that capability here. It can definitely be an accelerant. Terms of first-term soldiers, again, because they’re adjusting to the army life, it could also be an accelerant there too.”
Colonel Surrey went on to talk about Mission 100, saying this is a program Major General Eifler has instituted.
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