From the 30,000-foot level here, for the 4-year period I just described, Air Force deployments have not come down.
What brings us here is the spike in suicides.
I think it's a cumulative effect of deployments that run from 12 months to 15 months.
This is one subcommittee, I think, that has really gotten the spirit of what we're all about here and tried to be as non...
I hope that this hearing will lead us to a better understanding of the factors that military organizations and families ...
I look forward to learning about what you're trying to do to control this problem, and I appreciate the hearing.
I believe that the military has made progress on many fronts in confronting the issue of stigma.
Do you believe there's a shortage of mental health counselors in the military?
But do we, as a matter of routine, inform the military, 'You have a problem here'?
I know this is hard, but that's the most overwhelming evidence I've heard that there is a real stigma problem here.
I think what we have is a resource problem, but, more than anything else, we have a holdover of stigma.
Okay. Major General Rubenstein and Brigadier General Sutton, is that disturbing?
I think the critical--it is the recognition that we see increasingly throughout the country that part of what fuels this...
I was very encouraged and excited after our meeting that we can contribute to what I think is an important dialog when i...
I think it is a wise investment in these economic down times that we live in here at home.
I do think that we will get it stabilized and we'll see the recession coming to an end probably this year. We'll see rec...
We've seen some progress in financial markets, absolutely. But until we get that stabilized and working normally we're n...
the financial system must be regulated, to quote him, "as a whole, in a holistic way,"
