Lately, the California Army National Guard has been very active in overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and thus experienced significant exposure to combat situations.
There seems to be additional factors at play that are proving very stressful to the members of those units in California with some serious reaction to those stressors.
California National Guard reports puzzling increase in suicides
The rest of the story.....which is a real problem for so many combat veterans of the Units involved.
A great many are experiencing genuine hardships due to the policy being implemented that requires the repayment of Bonuses given for them to re-enlist for combat duty.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/us/nat...nus-repayment/
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...nap-story.html