Military service members are a high-risk population for suicide, especially those in the National Guard. The purpose of this research is to examine ways in which systems influence suicide risk within the National Guard population. This research shifts the perception of suicide from an individual problem to a systems problem through post-secondary data analysis of suicide investigations conducted by the Ohio Army National Guard between 2018 and 2023. Findings suggest that the influence of systems on individuals at risk is a contributing factor, and that stories of individuals lost to suicide serve to inform social workers on what we may be missing and where we need to focus our work.