At a hearing about the military's treatment of wounded soldiers, Scott Gould, the deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said veterans were benefiting from a suicide prevention crisis line, which has fielded more than 400,000 calls and led to more than 14,000 "rescues" since it began in July 2007.
To make it easy, let's say those are the numbers for a full 4 years. Gould is saying that they get 100,000 calls a year or about 275 a day and there are about 3,500 "rescues" a year or about 96 a day. How many people are in the military? Wikipedia says there were almost 1,500,000 in 2009 Then about 7% use the suicide prevention line every year and 1% of the members of the military are serious cases every year. That doesn't sound right to me.
If Gould is correct, that's another black mark against the volunteer army.
To make it easy, let's say those are the numbers for a full 4 years. Gould is saying that they get 100,000 calls a year or about 275 a day and there are about 3,500 "rescues" a year or about 96 a day. How many people are in the military? Wikipedia says there were almost 1,500,000 in 2009 Then about 7% use the suicide prevention line every year and 1% of the members of the military are serious cases every year. That doesn't sound right to me.
If Gould is correct, that's another black mark against the volunteer army.
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