We don't have pill formation because even our leadership won't take the stuff.
Enjoy Malaria.
Ya know, a few years ago, a Liberia-deployed USMC unit took the same attitude...28% of the force contracted Malaria and the CoC was relieved.
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10383.html
http://www.ajtmh.org/content/83/2/258.abstract
I've been deploying in an out of malarial climes for years with Army Special Forces and we have yet to see anyone have issues with Doxycycline. We don't get Malaria either...all except for one guy too smart for his own good. He didn't adhere to the prophylaxis, definitely got Malaria, and had to be medevaced from the middle of nowhere while on a combat operation.
With regard to Military Mental Health Surveys, PTSD, firearms ownership, etc. ...
1. Military surveys are usually conducted, monitored, collated, and updated by a wide range of contracted providers; these folks have a paid job as long as they continuously process troops through their program and show an ability to deliver product. It isn't that their motives are suspect or that there isn't a need to react to a problem or social issue, but... no data showing a problem = no further employment. Be careful how you answer such questions, as your individual labeling becomes an indelible fact...and the folks doing the labeling tend to have a myopic vision that seeks to label everyone. Admit to having three or four drinks at a Memorial Day BBQ on a health assessment survey, and some social worker will be ready to label you as a Binge Drinker and recommend Substance Abuse Counseling. Admit to problems sleeping upon return from deployment and the fact that you saw a dead person in a car wreck and some Health Care Provider may decide you have borderline PTSD. I'm oversimplifying, but you'd be amazed at some of the Soldier misdiagnoses I've seen. Especially where they
fail to diagnose someone who has legitimately rung every bell for exhibiting clinical PTSD / TBI... and then wonder why that service member spiraled out of control.
2. Some government or military surveys are indeed the pet rocks of someone attempting to secure grant money. Occasionally, force-wide surveys are simply vehicles to collect enough data for someone's advanced degree dissertation. Permission to execute such a survey is simply leveraged through job position and as another dubious enterprise from the "Good Idea Fairy". The military makes for a uniquely large captive audience and sampling pool for those inclined to do research and able to get permission to do so.
3. The military is an institution that is existentially concerned with enforcing control, order, and discipline among its personnel. The command hierarchy is NOT a culture of gun enthusiasts, although many senior folks are avid hunters, shooters, and outdoorsmen. The climate is more reminiscent of a class-stratified socialist society, where guns are "OK" for the more reliably proven career employees, but general and unconstrained ownership at lower levels is regarded as a potential headache. Unlike in civilian society, military commanders exercise broad powers to permit, forbid, proscribe, or regulate the actions and activities of their employees, both on and off duty. Historically, most base or large unit commanders prefer not having to deal with firearms as a social issue and regard weapon ownership as something to be tightly controlled (in the same manner as military issue weapons). In other words...best locked up when not in "sporting" use at the range.
4. The military, more than any other large employer in American society, finds itself in the recurring glare of public scrutiny. Especially by the media looking for a story, social activists or engineers looking to further an agenda, and congress-critters posturing for voters. If Soldiers commit suicide, the issue is elevated into the national news cycle. If Microsoft employees do the same, there isn't a blip on the radar.
Not enough body armor in the combat zone? Implement a full tilt over-reactive pendulum swing to ensure that everyone gets so much body armor to wear that they can no longer function while walking. Legitimate stories of poor health care for combat veterans result in much needed improvement, but at the same time, cause every functionary in the system to stretch the definitions of things like PTSD.
Pretty soon, there is an effort to grasp at straws when confronting issues like elevated suicide rates among the employee population. The leadership desperately feels the need to do something. They are being raked over the coals on a daily basis by vacuous reporters on cable news. They are losing people to something they can't quite put their arms around. Shazzam...we wind up with surveys designed by social workers and executed by the latest medical consultant to sidle up to the Federal contracting nipple.
Several millions of dollars later, a lengthy report will detail the fact that service members have been rode hard and put away wet since starting regularly recurring overseas deployments from ~1995 until present. Our units have been in a succession of Peace Enforcement or Combat operations for over 15 years, with back-to-back multiple deployments for almost all. THAT's the well-spring of increased suicides, divorces, etc. There is no Selective Service Draft and there is no National War Effort on the part of American Society. The same relatively small force of professional volunteers keep going back to the grindstone...over and over. The first term enlistees and junior officers have the usual tough experiences of combat. Those that stay for a career just get to absorb those experiences repeatedly. The culture calcifies into one which regards lengthy tours in the combat zone as just the normal cost of doing business. Additionally, each cyclical batch of fresh leaders & commanders is determined to win the war on their short watch; there is short thrift for those who can't hack it. Everyone (including loved ones back at home) is expected to "suck it up". Unfortunately, not everyone can. Personal problems are inevitable and some choose to take a permanent way out. It's a tough lifestyle.
The causality of suicides in the military is not really that complicated.