News Suicide among troops spikes in 2018 to highest rate in five years, Pentagon says September 26, 2019 Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY Comments Off on Suicide among troops spikes in 2018 to highest rate in five years, Pentagon says The rate of suicide among active-duty military troops was 24.8 per 100,000 people in 2018. Five years ago, the rate was 18.5 per 100,000.