Abstract
Abstract : All completed suicides among active-duty Navy and Marine Corps members during calendar years 1966 through 1977 were extracted from archival death records. The resulting sample included 549 Navy and 427 Marine Corps personnel. Comparisons were made between the services, and the subgroups were described in terms of demographic variables and methods of injury. Incidence rates for Marine Corps middle-range (E-4 through E-6) and junior enlisted personnel (E-1 through E-3) were double and triple the comparable Navy rates, respectively, but were lower than rates for the general U.S. population of white males. The Marine Corps sample was significantly younger and had less service than the Navy sample. Marine Corps personnel committed suicide significantly more often using firearms than Navy personnel. Findings were compared with data available for Army service members and previous studies of naval personnel. The risks inherent in inferring that the use of firearms in Navy and Marine Corps completed suicides relates to their availability to military personnel were noted.
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