Military Suicides Spike During COVID-19: ‘It’s Isolation That Will Absolutely Kill’

Despite starting the year off on the right track, military officials are reporting that during the coronavirus pandemic suicides among military personnel have spiked 20%, an alarming indication that isolation and social distancing is possibly having a disastrous effect on our armed forces.

Suicides were down in the first three months of 2020, but then the globe was hit with a pandemic. The threat of coronavirus ultimately launched restrictions on human interaction — precisely the kind of interaction individuals at high risk of self-harm so desperately need.

Faithwire Managing Editor and host of Faith vs. Culture on CBN News Dan Andros spoke with Jeremy Stalnecker, a veteran and Executive Director of the Mighty Oaks Foundation and discussed the troubling rise and what people can do to help stop it.

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