150,000/15 years = 10,000/ year. Seriously?
No. More like 150/ year. This is in a force averaging 1.4 million members annually during the same period. The authors of the study linked below say this about average for a population that size. (See the conclusion in the report):
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/183/suppl_1/396/4959986
I’d seriously consider dropping wherever you read that statistic as a source.
It was a VA study.
By the way, the study which was a compilation of active military, and veteran suicides state by state was under the direction of David Shulkin, the head of Veteran’s Affairs. He was appointed and fired by POTUS.