Veteran Suicide Crisis: Comparing Deaths by Suicide and War

I, I, I think a lot of people are unaware of the suicide crisis, of how many veterans have taken their own lives.

And I, I think, what is the statistic about, uh, veterans versus the amount of people that died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan?

It's more. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's quite a bit more, I think.

I don't know the number, but it's, it, it, it's a lot more.

Jamie will put it into Perplexity and find- You can, you can find that ... what the number is.

But it's, it i- it is shocking when people hear about it.

Yeah. It just, obviously something's going on.

Obviously these people aren't getting the help they need, and obviously something's not being addressed, and they have been forced to endure something that most people couldn't even imagine, which is combat duty. It's tough.

Yeah, it's unbelievably tough, and very few people can get through that unscathed.

And- But, but we can make a difference, you know? Absolutely.

So here it is. Yeah. US troops and veterans comparison is roughly four to one.

Yeah. Wow. So University Costs of War Study estimated that 30,177 deaths by suicide among post-9/11 service members and veterans versus 7,057 US military deaths in post-9/11 war operations.

4.3 times as many. Yeah. Holy shit. It's tough. They're, they're all casualties of war.

100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. And that's, uh, that's the right way to look at it