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The Department Of Veterans Affairs (VA) has severely undercounted the rate at which veterans take their own lives, a new study from America’s Warrior Partnership found.
“Operation Deep Dive” (ODD) took information on military service and cause of death from eight states and matched it up with Department of Defense records to identify a 37% greater suicide rate among veterans than reported by the VA, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Then, when ODD added self-injury mortality deaths, often classified as accidental or of unknown cause, it found that the total number of veterans who took their own lives is 2.4 times higher than the official VA suicide rate.
“My son currently serves and my son-in-law currently serves. I’m deeply invested to make sure that suicide never happens,” Jim Lorraine, president of America’s Warrior Partnership and U.S. Air Force veteran of 22 years, said to the DCNF.
“It’s personal for me, but I also have the experience to tell you it’s achievable,” he added.
