220,000
The approximate number of active duty and Reserve Service members who have a family member with special needs, according to an article recently published online in Disability and Health Journal, Understanding Military Families Who Have Dependents with Special Health Care and/or Educational Needs.
64 and 45
The median ages, respectively, of male and female users of VA benefits in 2014, according to an analysis released last month by the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics --Unique Veteran Users Report: FY 2014 (PDF).
131
The number of national Veterans cemeteries in existence today, along with "33 soldiers’ lots and monument sites, under the VA’s jurisdiction," according to a newly updated Congressional Research Service report -- Veterans’ Benefits: Burial Benefits and National Cemeteries (PDF)
59%
"The grant rate for Vietnam veterans applying for PTSD-based discharge upgrades" from the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records (ABCMR) since former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hegel issued a memo in 2014 ordering administrative boards "to grant 'liberal consideration' to applications from veterans with PTSD," according to a new report issued by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization of Yale Law School -- Unfinished Business: Correcting “Bad Paper” for Veterans with PTSD (PDF)
20%
The percentage of "major National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations that identified fatigue as a probable cause, contributing factor, or a finding," according to a new report in the journal Injury Prevention -- Fatigue in transportation: NTSB investigations and safety recommendations.