each chief of staff of the veterans employment and training service and thanks so much for being here and i thank you now so i listed off a few statistics there just from the last year but unfortunately we're having just been fighting these wars for the last year right if we think about the last ten years since september eleventh do you have you know i'm assuming much higher numbers for total numbers of suicides absolutely and as you mentioned the numbers are both horrifying and staggering and. numbers have been increasing since the beginning of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. chris christie ending in about two thousand and nine starting to subside a little bit but still way too many military and veteran deaths since the start of the iraq and afghanistan wars now is this something that we see more in one branch of the armed services than the other because some of the research that i was looking at showed that marines for example in two thousand and nine had the highest rate and so you know why might that be is that part of the puzzle and in figuring out why this is happening well i

really employment-ready people into the organization -- >> i was thinking about marine for life, and as cases like that. >> one of the things i want you all to take away, veterans' employment training services also has what we call our force multiplier out there, and we work with state work force agencies, and they have one-stop centers, which is what you're talking about. >> yes. >> there are specific individuals in their that is their job the veterans that come through. one of them is that disabled veterans outreach program, and the local and veterans employment. what do you need? the problem that arises is a lot of people know at the one-stop they take care of everyone. they do not know is veterans have priority in that one stop. the lever supposed to reach out to you and get you, what do you need? what are you trying to achieve? who are you looking for? and then being able to match that with the database. if you do not have that, i can provide that for you, because we have about 2000 trouthroughout e country. >> in the back of the room. let's keep it going. >> we have worked with kevin in a recent national launch with the chambers across the country, which were spectacular. i w

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