White House rolls out strategy to reduce military, veteran suicide, calling it a 'national security crisis'
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The White House on Tuesday announced a new comprehensive strategy to address and reduce military and veteran suicide in the United States.
U.S. military personnel walk on the tarmac at the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (ADEX) in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on Oct. 18, 2021. (ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin holds a briefing in Tbilisi on Oct. 18, 2021. (VANO SHLAMOV/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House said that since 2010, more than 65,000 veterans have died by suicide – a number greater than the total number of deaths from combat during the Vietnam War and the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
The White House said that, for more than a decade, the suicide rates have been higher and have risen faster among veterans as compared to nonveterans, with women veterans dying by suicide "at almost twice the rate than non-veteran women" and veterans ages 18 to 34 having a suicide rate "almost three times higher than non-veterans the same age."
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