Suicide Prevention

Lawmakers are working on a plan to reach the 60 percent of vets who die by suicide each day without a connection to VA care.

But there were encouraging trends in home ownership and access to VA care.

The program allows the VA to provide mental health resources to more than 400,000 National Guard members.

Cadet Kade Kurita posted a short note on Snapchat, indicating his plan to end his life, according to a U.S. Army official.

Suicide has become the leading cause of death in the Air Force, he says.

The Army had come up against an indisputable fact: The psychological damage of war was outpacing the science to treat it.

Congress first called for a report on military family suicides in 2014.

The rate was highest for the divorced; those in admin or mechanical or electrical repair; and those who never deployed.

Three sailors assigned to the same ship died in apparent suicides in the last week.