Thank you, Chair.
I'm pleased to follow up on the suggestion that Rear-Admiral Smith come before us with his colleagues and talk about what the military is doing. I was privileged to attend the seminar you put on for the military about a month ago. I was very impressed. I was very impressed with the military, and I was very impressed with how much I believe you folks have stepped up your game over the past number of years. I was also impressed by the senior leadership that supported the initiative, including General Natynczyk.
In that context, I also wanted to ask some questions pertaining to suicide and the de-stigmatization of mental illness and things of that nature, which is problematic for our society as a whole but also for the military. I agree with your comment that the military could lead in this area. You have a discrete population that you're working with, and you have resources available to you that could be useful to the larger society. The rate of suicide in the military roughly parallelled that of the larger population up until about 2007, and then it doubled for some reason. There doesn't seem to be any concrete explanation for why the suicides would double in the military around 2007. I don't have statistics for later than that. I'd be interested in the way in which the stats are now kept. Is there something else that might be going on?