Statistics
Did you know….
From 2001 to 2021, 6,257 service members gave their lives for our freedom during Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.
According to the Department of Veteran Affairs statistics, over 114,000 veterans committed suicide in that same 20 year time period 2001 - 2021.
Please read this article of a study conducted on behalf of mental health care offered and delivered within the VA. This article was published by the National Institute of Health to help us understand the barriers and factors in which why veterans avoid the VA Health System still today.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6069794/
Published VA Health and Veterans Affairs Suicide
Statistics articles and facts, including numbers year over year.
https://news.va.gov/137221/va-2024-suicide-prevention-annual-report/#:~:text=Among%20all%20U.S.%20adults%20in,10.6%20were%20among%20other%20Veterans.
https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/data.asp
