Fort Carson appears on track to tie or surpass the number of suicides its soldiers committed last year, according to statistics provided by the post last week.
Six Fort Carson soldiers have committed suicide in 2012 through Wednesday, one less than the post recorded in 2011, said Deon Cobasky, the post’s suicide prevention program manager. “Several” other deaths remain under investigation, said Dee McNutt, a post spokeswoman.
The rise in Fort Carson suicides mirrors an Army trend that has frustrated leaders and prompted a renewed focus on prevention. It also comes as the post battles persistently high suicide rates that traditionally surpass those for Colorado and El Paso County.
The post’s suicide rate in 2011 was nearly 27 per 100,000 soldiers. That is far above the rates in El Paso County and Colorado, which averaged nearly 18 per 100,000 people, according to the state’s Office of Suicide Prevention.
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