i yield back to the chairman.
>> mr. ryan?
>> appreciate the opportunity to
speak.
thank you for sticking around.
it is appropriate that this may
be the final question or final
conversation that we have.
the issue of suicides among our
soldiers from 2005 through 2009.
we have had 11,000 -- 1100
soldiers commit suicide every 36
hours.
navy times said 7.3% of army,
navy and marines have fought
about attempting suicide.
have we changed our pre
deployment training corps
training in general to try to
help diminish these numbers a
bit?
>> we have.
we have also taken a number of
steps, in a whole host of
different ways including
increasing staffing of medical
professionals to deal with this
to turning of leaders to