Brigadier General Sutton and Ms. Power, do military leaders routinely receive data on suicide attempts? If not, should they?
What brings us here is the spike in suicides.
From the 30,000-foot level here, for the 4-year period I just described, Air Force deployments have not come down.
We know that statistically suicide is rare yet it remains one of the leading causes of death among young adults.
$50 million sounds like a lot of money to me. Do you support that initiative?
The Army's suicide rate has doubled from 2004 to now.
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?