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Of suicides are committed by troops who never deploy. and trying to figure out -- and the truth is, i think as a former university president, there is a suicide problem with that generation and that age group of 18 to 25. every university president has had to deal with suicides on his or her campus. it's clearly more widespread now in the military. actually it wasn't when i became secretary. the military members were below the civilians suicide rates. i think it's the repeated deployment is a constant stress but most of the time we found it has to do with problems with a marriage, financial pr...

Claims, mandatory overtime, looking at private medical evidence and having things simple things like opening up compensation and claim examinations after work hours so they don't have to take time off work, they can make their appointments. >> you can see some of the people, the faces of those individuals affected by this. right now, that's from your tumbler page. this past spring, they show how long they have been waiting for benefits. timing here is critical for a variety of topics. among them, suicides among veterans. the number by some counts 22 veteran suicides per day. what's being done ...

Decade. is the v.a. doing enough? the second question, is it equipped to do enough? what else can we do? >> in addition to the veteran suicide, many of us worked on the dramatically increased suicide rate within the military. what really struck me in that is that's a challenge for america. there are no easy answers with respect to this. america seems to look away from the suicide problem far too often. that certainly then is resident in both the veteran population and our military population. there's an awful lot of work going on to try to understand it to intercept it ahead of time. one of th...

Feeling those emotional stress. >> and do you think there needs to be some change maybe in the recruitment process, that maybe they need to raise standards. one of the critiques of this report is that standards were lowered a little bit and maybe some folks who were accepted into the army, normally wouldn't have been accepted, but because they needed the troops, they accepted folks that maybe had a criminal background that maybe was a little -- shouldn't have been forgiven. >> well, i'm not sure how much that relates to our suicide problem. but i do think mental health information at the get-g...

Here stateside within the national guard units, someone they can talk to besides the chaplain when feeling emotional stress. >> do you think there needs to be change in the recruitment standards, maybe they -- frankly, stwrarnds lowered a little bit and maybe some folks were accepted into the army normally won't have been accepted but because they needed the troops, they accepted folks that maybe had a criminal background that maybe was a little -- shouldn't have been forgiven. >> i'm not sure how much that relates to our suicide problem, but i do think mental health information at the get-go ...