Thank you, gentlemen.
Thank you, General, for your service and for being here today to answer our questions.
I want to talk about a quote that I read from your book, Waiting for First Light. You said:
No one recognized what I was doing at the time. Not even me. Nobody told me I was injured. I didn't think I was injured, though I felt the weight of having had to ask to be relieved of command. Outwardly, I was still committed, determined, stable. Inwardly, the stresses I was imposing on myself were beating me down, piling up on the stresses at work.
Is there something that Veterans Affairs can do to intervene at this point in a soldier's life and a soldier's mental state that could prevent or stop the progression from this state to suicide?