Is that number any higher than the suicide rate for demographically similar non-veterans? What is the suicide rate, for example, of non-veteran males in America?
Most of the veterans who commit suicide are older (I think average age for a veteran suicide is 59 yrs old), so we are talking mostly about post-Vietnam to Gulf War I era veterans.
My question as well. People most likely to commit suicide are males; early 20s, followed by teens, followed by 60+, divorced, split-up, or widowed.
Controlling for those factors, does veteran status make a statistical difference?