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Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety...
Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety were briefed yesterday on suicide rates for Kentucky's National Guard members.
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Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety were briefed yesterday on suicide rates for Kentucky's National Guard members.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMembers of the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans Military Affairs and Public Safety were briefed yesterday on suicide rates for Kentucky's National Guard members, according to the data from the presentation.
The National Guard is an understudied group.
If you look at 2013, does the National Guard have higher suicide rates?
Does active Component have lower 2013?
At first made it seem that the National Guard had much higher suicide rates than the rest of the the even the active duty population?
And so there were good, healthy conversations about that early on.
What we've seen over time, though, if you look at the rest of this data over the last decade is these numbers have kind of ebbed and flowed.
And so some years the National Guard does have a little higher suicide rate than the active component.
Sometimes it's a little lower, but only trends that are really holding consistently firm is that the entire veteran and military population does continue to have a significantly higher suicide rate than the general population.
And so the conclusion we take from that is none of us are immune.
None of us have figured it out.
None of us have solved the suicide challenge yet.
And so we will not rest.
We will continue to improve our programs.
Also brought up at the meeting a budget proposal for the newly formed Urban Search and Rescue Program.
It would add funding for a statewide type one rescue team and a helicopter aquatic rescue team with hoisting capabilities and extended rescue aid programs for teams.
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