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Demographic, military, and health data from the Department of Defense within SUPIC were compiled and linked with National Death Index records to identify deaths by suicide. Participants included US Army soldiers who returned from an Afghanistan or Iraq deployment. Data were analyzed from September to December 2022.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>Military-related TBI.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The outcome of interest was suicide. Secondary outcomes were incidence of new-onset mental health conditions. Mediation analyses consisted of accelerated failure time (AFT) models in conjunction with the product of coefficients method. The 6 new-onset mental health diagnosis categories and the 2 or more categories variable were each considered separately as potential mediators; therefore, a total of 14 models plus the overall AFT model estimating the total effect associated with TBI in suicide risk were fit.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>The study included 860\u202f892 soldiers (320\u202f539 soldiers [37.2%] aged 18-24 at end of index deployment; 766\u202f454 [89.0%] male), with 108\u202f785 soldiers (12.6%) with at least 1 documented TBI on their military health record. Larger increases in mental health diagnoses were observed for all conditions from before to after documented TBI, compared with the matched dates for those without a history of TBI, with increases observed for mood (67.7% vs 37.5%) and substance use (100% vs 14.5%). Time-to-suicide direct effect estimates for soldiers with a history of TBI were similar across mediators. For example, considering new-onset adjustment disorders, time-to-suicide was 16.7% faster (deceleration factor, 0.833; 95% CI, 0.756-0.912) than for soldiers without a history of TBI. Indirect effect estimates of associations with TBI were substantial and varied across mediators. The largest indirect effect estimate was observed through the association with new-onset substance use disorder, with a time to suicide 63.8% faster (deceleration factor, 0.372; 95% CI, 0.322-0.433) for soldiers with a history of TBI.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this longitudinal cohort study of soldiers, rates of new-onset mental health conditions were higher among individuals with a history of TBI compared with those without. Moreover, risk for suicide was both directly and indirectly associated with history of TBI. 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