United States Air Force Basic Military Training (also known as BMT or boot camp) is an eight-and-a-half-week program of physical and mental training required in order for an individual to become an Airman in the United States Air Force, United States Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard.
For example, increasing awareness of suicide and the importance of getting appropriate treatment to reduce suicidal behaviour is an important goal of World Suicide Prevention Day.
To understand the stigma associated with suicide it is important to understand the history of suicide. Until the 1900s suicide was viewed as sin rather than an illness. In the book, Silent Grief, Christopher Lukas and Henry M. Seiden, explain the history of suicide stigma.