David Roe: “Thank you all for your investment in the most important resource we have which is the future of this country which are…”

The provision of grants that address social risk factors may substantially help prevent veteran suicide.

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

I want to congratulate this entire committee. Every one of you finished in exactly 5 minutes, so congratulations.