the number of suicides by members of the Reserves is significantly less than for the Active component.

This is one subcommittee, I think, that has really gotten the spirit of what we're all about here and tried to be as nonpartisan as possible.

I look forward to learning about what you're trying to do to control this problem, and I appreciate the hearing.

I think what we have is a resource problem, but, more than anything else, we have a holdover of stigma.

The fact that no one was prepared for a million displaced families is not shocking.

I hope that this hearing will lead us to a better understanding of the factors that military organizations and families can positively influence.

We all share your view that the current numbers of suicides in the Army are unacceptable.

Okay. Major General Rubenstein and Brigadier General Sutton, is that disturbing?

I am concerned that DOD does not appear to get feedback from the National Suicide Hotline about calls to that hotline by military members.

Overall, my goal in the next 6 months is due diligence and regimented enforcement of all institutional processes that exist to take care of soldiers with an ultimate goal being significant reduction in the number of suicides.

I believe that the military has made progress on many fronts in confronting the issue of stigma.

From the 30,000-foot level here, for the 4-year period I just described, Air Force deployments have not come down.