Members of the UK armed forces are significantly more
likely than civilians to commit a violent offence during their lifetime — and the risk for those who have experienced action on the battlefield is 53 per cent higher than for military personnel with no combat experience.
«Canadian military personnel more
likely than civilians to think about suicide but also to seek help.»
People in the military with suicidal thoughts were significantly more
likely than civilians to seek help and accessed more types of professionals for help.
Although unmarried soldier and veteran parents are more
likely than their civilian counterparts to have a formal child support and visitation order, they often face unique challenges caused by their military service that make it difficult for them to meet their parenting and child support obligations.
Not exact matches
According to Airwars, a UK - based independent monitoring group, between Trump's inauguration and mid-July, more
than 2,200
civilians appeared to have been killed in coalition airstrikes — almost as many as the 2,300
likely killed by coalition strikes under Obama.
Sofge, who stressed coalition forces» efforts to avoid
civilian casualties, said the actual process
likely takes less time to complete
than it does to describe, in part because of the experience they have doing it and because parts of it happen concurrently.
A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less
than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's
civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more
likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.
And the aggressor was more
than four times more
likely to be stopped by an unarmed
civilian than an armed one.
The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher
than the general population — and military spouses are
likely to make 38 percent less
than their
civilian counterpart.
Veterans in the private sector are 45 % more
likely to be self - employed
than civilians with no active - duty experience.
While male soldiers are more
likely to experience PTSD
than the average
civilian male, according to PTSD United, one out of every nine women will develop PTSD at some point in her lifetime, meaning they're twice as
likely as men to suffer from the disorder.
Civilians may be more
likely to detect a threat
than a security officer, he suggested.
Critics of concealed carry say that the presence of armed, but otherwise unprepared and untrained,
civilians in an «active shooter» situation would more
likely lead to chaos and casualties
than a swift resolution.
Canadian military personnel have higher rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, but they are also more
likely to access mental health support
than civilians, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Men in the military are 10 times more
likely to experience sexual harassment
than civilian men, but an estimated 81 percent of military men who are harassed do not report it, the articles added.
Veterans are more
than twice as
likely to have their identities stolen
than American
civilians.
The reason is that members of the military are a different type of applicant
than civilians, and lenders who specialize in loans to the military are more
likely to approving applications despite poor ratings.
You'll more
than likely need a bachelor's degree from an accredited program to get started as a
civilian in this career field.
Manufactured homes have «a lower rate of
civilian fire injuries per 100,000 occupied housing units
than other one or two - family homes» and post-HUD standard manufactured homes are more
likely than other homes to have fires confined to the room of origin.