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HEADLINE: Military suicides up 16 percent in 2020, but officials don’t blame pandemic by Meghann Myers There were 580 deaths by suicide among service members last year, according to the report released Thursday, up from 498 in 2019. While that represents a 16 percent increase in the number of suicides, it represents an increased suicide rate of about 2 per-100,000, which DoD does not consider significant for the purposes of tracking trends. The suicide rate among active-duty troops increased from 26.3 deaths-per-100,000 to 28.7 from 2019 to 2020