services under the leadership of general dempsey and his senior enlisted advisor, sergeant major brian battaglia, are working to elevate mental fitness to the same level of importance. we've got to elevate mental fitness to the same level of importance that dod has always placed on physical fitness. separately, a whole of government effort that has been led by the president and mrs. obama to combat veterans' unemployment and boost hiring of military spouses is aimed at helping to reduce the financial stress faced by military families and veterans. finally, fourthly, we've got to increase research in suicide prevention. in partnership across government and with the private sector, the fourth pillar of our approach is to improve our understanding of suicide, to improve our understanding of related mental health care issues through better and more improved scientific research. i'd like to note the leadership, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, on this issue, and thank her for coming to address this conference earlier. all of us recognize that there is still far too much that we

to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, united states marine corps sergeant major brian battagli. -- battagliap this up is a great place to throw out and much deserved thanks to the v.a., dod, in making this conference in reality. thank you for all your efforts. you can see this is a slight twist to a normal panel format. it fits in with our scheme of maneuvering, and what i hope to do by speaking on the heels of youservices' mets, now that have heard on both monday and this morning the services' programs and their efforts, i will wrap up things with an overarching perspective from an armed forces stand for it and share some thoughts and clarify a few things that i picked up along the way during the course of this conference as well. so, my thoughts and observations are not meant to be critical, and we are big boys and girls and must have some tricks again, but -- thick skin, but i want to make sure that we prevent any strategic fratricide in our efforts to reduce suicide in our military. i am going to start by putting myself in the chest, so, jennifer, if he could be so kind to play that vide