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The Marine Corps had the highest rate of suicide among all the U.S. military branches in 2022 ― a sobering statistic for a service that has stepped up efforts in recent years to prevent these tragedies. The military has seen a gradual increase in suicide across the branches since 2011, the Defense Department’s annual report on suicide in the military found. In the Marine Corps’ active component, 34.9 out of 100,000 service members died by suicide in 2022, up from a rate of 23.9 in 2021 and higher than any other service. (Loewenson, 11/13)

Artificial intelligence is working to save the lives of America's heroes. A new product by ReflexAI called HomeTeam was just released this week, with the goal of preventing veteran suicide. After completing a module, trainees are prompted to test their skills by answering quizzes and interacting with an AI-powered chatbot named Blake. (Stabile, 11/13)

Florida Atlantic University has received a $400,000 grant that will help expand research looking at early life stress as well as post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. The grant was awarded by the Community Foundation of Broward and will be used over the next four years. One project aims to identify early life stress triggers among those who experience extreme adversity like abandonment, abuse and poverty. (Cabrera, 11/13)

Over the objections of its three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from a prisoner confined for years without the chance to exercise outside his cell. The treatment of mentally unstable Illinois inmate Michael Johnson had previously divided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. It rejected his lawsuit alleging that keeping him in his windowless cell except for an occasional trip for a shower violated the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. (Barnes, 11/13)

The mayor fatally shot himself after a news site published a photo of him in makeup and said he had written erotic fiction and posts using names and photos of local residents, including a minor. (Rojas, Sassoon and Edmonds, 11/12)

When former police officer Omar Delgado heard the news of four current and former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dying by suicide in less than 24 hours last week, he understood. “It’s kind of like a pressure cooker. If you don’t slowly let go of that steam little by little, when it does pop, it’s over because it’s going to be such a big explosion.” Delgado was one of the first officers on the scene of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando on June 12, 2016. He suffers post-traumatic stress disorder from that night, and has attempted to take his own life twice. (Tucker, 11/12)

Damon Covington was restless about how his life would proceed — until a voice in his head told him he should be a firefighter. He knew next to nothing about how to become one, and even less about the Oakland Fire Department, where he started out two decades ago. Now Covington is the city’s new full-time chief, after four months of holding the interim role. After running through words of appreciation for the city’s leaders, Covington was clear on his top priority: establishing better mental-health services for the department’s 443 firefighters. (Muukherjee, 11/13)