The number of airmen committing suicide has risen nearly 50 percent in just the last year, the Air Force's top enlisted leaders said at AFA's Air & Space Conference in September.rnThere were 71 airman suicides through mid-September, up from 56 through the same time last year. "The fact is, we're ... at an all-time high," said CMSAF James A. Roy. "No one is exempt from this-young airmen, very senior airmen."rnThe spike in suicides has caught officials' attention across the Air Force, and senior officers and enlisted leaders are trying to tackle the problem. A panel of command chief master sergeants from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Force Reserve Command, Air Force Space Command, Air Combat Command, and US Air Forces in Europe all agreed they need to take action because even one suicide is too many.
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机译：空军高层应征者在9月的AFA航空航天会议上说，仅去年一年，飞行员自杀的人数就增加了近50％。截至9月中旬，共有71名飞行员自杀，而同期的自杀人数为56人。去年。 CMSAF詹姆斯·A·罗伊（James A. Roy）说：“事实是，我们……处于前所未有的高度。” “没有人可以免除这个年轻的飞行员，非常高级的飞行员。”自杀率的上升已经引起了空军全体官员的关注，高级官员和应征入伍的领导人正在努力解决这一问题。空军全球打击司令部，空军后备司令部，空军太空司令部，空中作战司令部和美国驻欧洲空军司令部的指挥官首席中士均同意，他们需要采取行动，因为即使一次自杀也太多了。
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