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Stressors of performing military jobs in garrison are either absent from most suicide research, are uninformative by being presented as a homogenous category, or are restricted to relatively uncommon situations such as being under investigation. However, there are a number of reasons related to methodology and military culture to question whether more common non-combat occupational stressors, such as simply disliking one\u2019s job, might be more impactful to suicide behavior and SI than is currently reflected in the literature.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As part of a climate survey across seven U.S. Army installations, 15,496 soldiers completed anonymous surveys, which included items from the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS). Where SIs were indicated, soldiers were asked to select from a list of 16 potential non-combat related reasons any they felt were \u201cmain causes\u201d for their SI.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In total, 1617 soldiers (10.4%) reported a wish to be dead or thoughts of suicide in the past month. The top four endorsed reasons were all common occupational stressors: \u201cDisliking your job\u201d (51.0%); \u201cFeeling like a failure in your career\u201d (50.5%); \u201cFeeling like you don\u2019t fit in at work\u201d (46.2%); and \u201cLack of support from leaders\u201d (34.9%). In total, 76.3% of soldiers with SI endorsed at least one of these stressors as a main cause. Problems with romantic partners and finances were identified less frequently (30.4% and 28.9%, respectively). Legal issues were endorsed by 9.7% and 5.9% for Army and non-Army legal\/administrative actions, respectively. Soldiers who had some intention of acting on their SI (2.7% of soldiers) had a similar distribution of responses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Results show the importance of common non-combat occupational stressors as identified contributors to SI, and suggest that these factors have been underestimated for cultural and methodological reasons. 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