The silent war

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The story of Army specialist Austin Valley highlights a crisis the US military can’t seem to solve: More service members die by suicide than in combat. A veteran psychologist told Congress what to do about it, and today he tells us. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Photo courtesy of Erik Valley. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In April of 2023, Army Specialist Austin Valley took his own life.
0:07.0	There were two mysterious things about this tragedy.
0:11.0	Valley had tried already while deployed overseas in Poland just a month earlier.
0:16.0	He'd nearly succeeded and the Army knew that after the attempts they'd flown him home from Poland to Fort Riley, Kansas.
0:22.0	Also, the 21-year-old driver... flown him home from Poland to Fort Riley, Kansas.
0:23.4	Also, the 21-year-old driver hadn't seen combat.
0:26.4	His short time in the service had been fairly calm.
0:29.8	The military has a crisis.
0:31.6	Active duty service members who've never seen war are dying by
0:34.6	suicide. Thousands more in fact than died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:39.2	Coming up on today explained Austin Valley's parents who want answers and the veteran psychiatrist
0:45.4	who may be best equipped to help solve a mystery that the US military's got a crack.
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