I also think PTSD is more common. Members can talk openly about it because they all experience it. They're all in theatre together. Depression, anxiety and how we all react to certain life pressures varies. One person may be able to take it all stride and another person may not. That's where I think that stigma comes from.
In terms of the metrics and the specific actions the IDF has taken, I wasn't able to find that. I'm still digging to try to understand what they've done. They did note that it's been a few years that they've been working at it and are now enjoying the benefits of it.
I wanted to share as well that in the entire departmental plan for National Defence, there's only one sentence about a suicide strategy. It simply says to hire more resources. That's the message or the takeaway I got, as opposed to something more meaningful or trying to reduce it by x amount. I feel they're just words. Until there's actual quantified inputs that are listed, I don't feel it's a meaningful initiative.