get a free quote today. >>> joining me, retired general peter chiarelli.as the army's vice chief of staff earlier this year. he is now the ceo of one mind for research, an organization dedicated to curing brain disorders. general, thank you so much for being here. so i wanted to get sort of an annual checkup with you and ask you how you think the u.s. is doing, insofar as concerned our veterans when they come home with either traumatic brain injuries or ptsd. has anything change from when we last talked a year ago? >> well, i think we're doing as best as we possibly can, but the problem is we just do not have the really good diagnostic tools we need that in every case we can see who is being afflicted both with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. traumatic brain injury is a beautiful example. caused by some kind of concussive event. i have seen studies that indicate that patients who are initially diagnosed with having mild traumatic brain injury at the time of their injury are doing far worse than some patients who were diagnosed with severe

peter chiarelli last year he was in uniform and pushing the cause of america's warriors who suffer brainnjuries. >> these hidden injuries of war, post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, have been with us forever. >> a year later chiarelli has left the service but not the cause. >> i don't want this generation to follow in these same footsteps. these aren't new problems. these are diseases that have been with us forever. >> a severe brain trauma can be a gateway injury leading to depression, anxiety, drug use, or in some cases suicide. early detection may help those most in need. >> we believe we're close to having a bio marker that's going to allow us to go up with a small assay machine and you're going to be able to take a quick blood sample and tell if somebody has had a concussion. >> a year later. >> i think we're a year closer to that. >> of all the figures we can tell you, this one stopped us in our tracks. the va estimates 1 veterans commit suicide every day, that is more than 6,500 a year. put differently. more veterans die of suicide in a year than the enemy has killed