It's a scary issue to deal with. When I was Tower Branch Chief, I had an excellent NCO who had failed the JM course and took a lot of ribbing for it by the other instructors. We prepped him and, when we thought he was ready, sent him back...but he failed again. He couldn't take the ding to his pride from failing and drove out to Fryar DZ on a Saturday, parked his car in the woods along the North end of the DZ, taped a hose around his car's exhaust pipe and ran it through the back window, closed all the windows and started the car. It was August in Georgia and we found him on Monday when checking the DZ while prepping for the start of another Jump Week class. He had literally exploded inside the car and everything was covered in body fluids crawling with maggots. I've never forgotten it. 
Now, on a lighter note, I'm glad trvlr's unit has found another useful chore for its junior field grade officers - classroom monitor. 
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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