Derrick Van Orden: “Veteran suicide's increasing.”

“Maybe you should look at a different vocation, sir. I think we've made a lot of progress on that score and I think we have not. Veteran suicide's increasing. That's not true. That is not true. We've spent $19 billion in 2023 on suicide prevention and suicides are increasing. So your, your, your methodology, your methodology has been proven to, to be bad.” (04:31–04:34)

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