Or, at least in this article at Pravda (no, not the BBC), the aftermath of war (emphasis mine) :

A military spokesman, Tim Embree, testified February 25 before the Committee on Veterans Affairs of the House of Representatives. He stated on behalf of the 180,000 American Veterans/associates in Iraq and Afghanistan (IAVA, for its acronym in English), countries that they were sent to fight in twice. “Last year more killed themselves with their own hands more effectively than those who fell in combat in Afghanistan, he pointed out. Most of us know someone who did it upon returning home and the figures do not even include those who commit suicide at the end of their service: they are outside the system and their deaths are often overlooked “(/ / iava.org, 15 – 7-10). Perhaps they were not human beings, just disposable material.

Embree recalled the figures published by the weekly Army Times, which reports news of the military and career opportunities in the institution: “18 veterans commit suicide every day and a monthly average of 950 attempted suicides were recorded among veterans who receive some type of treatment from some corresponding federal department (www.armytimes.com, 10/04/1926).” They are all veterans of U.S. foreign wars fought in foreign lands and they suffer, in general, from PTSD. Before it was called shell shock or battle fatigue or shock and even other names. PTSD combines all of them.

Shocking figures and something you don’t normally see written about in the press.

UK troops seem to be made of sterner stuff, at least if the reported stats here can be believed :

Meanwhile, among the U.K. armed forces, there were eight suicides in 2009, according to the Defence Analytical Services and Advice agency.

From 1984 to 2009, 737 suicides occurred among U.K. regular armed-forces personnel: 718 among males, and 19 among females.

This was statistically significantly lower than male suicide rates in the general U.K. population.

Even so, 737 soldiers killing themselves in 25 years is rather a lot and makes you wonder what kind of support they get from their employer.