people come back home. yeah. it s a context problem. we just moved the warrior. if we put them back into that original setting they would be fine. reporter: for scott barber the operation saved his life. wasn t just me. i m not crazy. great reporting by carol costello. when we re back i will speak with a former marine who combatted this himself and started a foundation to try to help other people because there is an alarming rate of veteran suicides. growing up, we were german. we danced in a german dance group. i wore lederhosen. when i first got on ancestry i was really surprised that i wasn t finding all of these germans in my tree. i decided to have my dna tested through ancestry dna. the big surprise was we re not german at all. 52% of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. so, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com.
now the data is a bit sloppy. that s okay. that s okay. but why do you think that is? why do military people have higher suicide rates? we believe that it has to do with the transition process and it s about getting people to become productive members of society after they serve, whether it s on active duty reserve duty, national guard duty. so they feel lost coming out of structure into a world where you don t have that kind of military bearing. that could be part of it. there are a lot of different complex things that people go through during their transition process but at the end of the day it takes multiple decades. if it s true that men over the age of 50 comprise the bulk of veteran suicides, we have to think about the people who have just served in the current war situation the 2 plus million people that have gone in and out of war and how that translates over the next couple of decades. right and the federal government really doesn t involve itself with this. they ar
now the data is a bit sloppy. that s okay. that s okay. but why do you think that is? why do military people have higher suicide rates? we believe that it has to do with the transition process and it s about getting people to become productive members of society after they serve, whether it s on active duty reserve duty, national guard duty. so they feel lost coming out of structure into a world where you don t have that kind of military bearing. that could be part of it. there are a lot of different complex things that people go through during their transition process but at the end of the day it takes multiple decades. if it s true that men over the age of 50 comprise the bulk of veteran suicides, we have to think about the people who have just served in the current war situation the 2 plus million people that have gone in and out of war and how that translates over the next couple of decades. right and the federal government really doesn t involve itself with this. they ar
now the data is a bit sloppy. that s okay. that s okay. but why do you think that is? why do military people higher suicide rates? we believe that it has to do with the transition process and it s about getting people to become productive members of society after they serve, whether it s on active duty reserve duty, national guard duty. so they feel lost coming out of structure into a world where you don t have that kind of military bearing. that could be part of it. there are a lot of different complex things that people go through during their transition process but at the end of the day it takes multiple decades. if it s true that men over the age of 50 comprise the bulk of veteran suicides, we have to think about the people who have just served in the current war situation the 2 plus million people that have gone in and out of war and how that translates over the next couple of decades. right and the federal government really doesn t involve itself with this. they are jus
we re talking about? we re talking about people that were injured by being blown up by ieds, people who had a mental break down and have severe ptsd and are having trouble functioning. we re talking about veterans that were severely injured by some means while in the military even if it was not in actual come bakt because we have people in rollover vehicle stents. who have you told this to? the oig knows when they spoke to me. the oig inspectors can ask anyone who does scheduling. they asked you? they didn t ask me. i told them. drew griffin there. dr. mitchell says that she had not dealt with any veterans who died waiting to be seen but she did say she is aware of the problems of veteran suicides and