----Military experts have long noted that the stigma attached to acknowledging mental health problems causes many soldiers to believe they will injure their careers by divulging what they view as personal weakness. 

You neglect to state the “by whom”. In this instance by the armed forces. In this instance by your reporter.

It is a common habit to substitute the term “stigma” for prejudice and discrimination, a lesson I thought we had learned from the Women’s Movement and the pretense, rape/stigma.

A requested edit:

----Military experts have long noted that acknowledging mental health problems causes many soldiers to believe they will injure their careers by divulging what they view as personal weakness. 

Harold A. Maio, retired mental health editor