Dear Editor:

In your September 2014 issue, Dr Brunet and Dr Monson1 cite Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) data showing no association of suicide during military service with ever having deployed. We would like to clarify our interpretation of this finding.

Contrary to the authors' assertion, we do not interpret this as evidence against the suicidogenic effects of military trauma. Indeed, the professional-technical reviews done after each military suicide have identified deploymentrelated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as one factor among many in at least some recent suicides.