Thank you, Chair.
I just want to continue on that line of questioning, Dr. Zamorski.
Recently a reporter generated some information out of access to information. He showed me five years' worth of stats on suicides, and it wasn't clear to me that there was a pattern. The pattern seemed to be that there was no pattern, or there was such a steady state among all categories of demographics, and it didn't seem to be whether it was in theatre or out of theatre, etc.
When I looked at it for a little longer, two things did seem to start to tease out. The first was that there seemed to be a bump in January and September, and there may be some explanation for that. I'm not quite sure.
The second thing was the clearance rate, if you will. Suicides going back three years actually didn't seem to have had reports attached to them. So there was not a final determination on...I don't know if it was causes or whatever, but it was quite noticeable that they weren't cleared for three years.
You mentioned the U.S. There does seem to be a discrepancy between U.S. numbers and our numbers. I don't know whether it's just the way they count as opposed to the way we count. There may be something...it may be attributable to good care. If there are five shrinks per 5,000 people, that's a pretty good number, and maybe that's where the payoff is. I don't really know.
There's another thing that I was curious about. You say in your paper that in some respects it's a self-selecting group, that you weed out the risk folks prior to their getting into the military, so they're almost below the national average, which is an interesting observation in and of itself. But in some respects they're misleading because they're only tracking the folks who are not discharged.
I've thrown at you three or four or five issues. I'd be interested in your observations on each and every one, if you will.