Is there a bad suicide rate for Army recruiters?

Question

I'll be brief. I was a Aviation mechanic in the Army and my platoon sgt and I somehow got into his past life experience in Recruiting . He told me he was forced to work 12-15 hour workdays 6 days a week or more. He was going through a divorce because his wife felt there was no point being together if he was always gone. He told me that his commander had a reputation for being very mean and making recruiters work very long hours and he was rumored to of had 3 sgt's commit suicide under his command. any ways sergeant he was verbaly abused and forced to work for months on end days off except maybe on a sunday where he still was required to be on call if someone was interested in military service. He told me he committed himself oneday after a long night of drinking and a failed suicide attempt! He told me he somehow tied power cord around his neck and stood on a chair and pushed it from out under him. He told me that right before he was blacking out and he was feeling the coldness of death coming he realized his son would find him and would probably be traumatized. He told me that he was able to put his feet on a chair or something to bring himself up and undo his neck. That morning he checked himself into a mental hospital . He was diagnosed with severe depression and Hyper tension that was causing him to have dangerously high blood pressure.When his first sergeant got there he began insulting him and accusing him of malingering and promised him if he didn't get his act strait to look forward to many more months of long hours. He eventually was transferred and placed into another unit for his remaining enlistment term where he served his time and eventually reenlisted as a Avaition Mechanic. I found this shocking but I had no reason not to believe him since he is creditable and he is first class sergeant and has his head together. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

I'd like to add that his account took place in the late 90's and he told me this in 2005

Answer 1

Recruiters has quotas to meet.  It's their job.  If they meet their quota after 2 days then they don't have much work to do.  Doesn't make sense to me personally especially if it was in the late 90's when we weren't struggling for troops.  

Answer 2

Surprisingly enough there isn't hardly any cases of suicide in recruiting. It's a tough job and leaders are not very good at all. Most of them have very little learship experience prior to recruiting and they chose to convert to career recruiter. They continued to make rank but the whole while no real leadership experience. Most of the station commanders, first sergeants, and company commanders have never deployed either. It's like they're hiding out. They push us too far and some people can't handle the pressure. Sometimes it's not even the pressure that gets to them it's the constant threatening of their career and UCMJ action. As a current recruiter I can tell you that these guys are really sucking it up and dealing with it. Sometimes I want so badly to use lethal force on my leaders but I obviously refrain from this. I have realized what ever they tell me is just a smoke screen.

Some people get into tight corners and self destruct. Others get into the same corner but come out fighting.

Answer 3

After dealing with crazy mothers (some show up here on Yahoo! answers) I'd ssume so. LOL.