7.2 percent
The 2014 unemployment rate among Gulf War-era II veterans (those who served at any time since September 2001), according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This represents a decline of 1.8 percent over the previous year.
18.5%
and
4.2%
Respectively, the "estimated 12-month prevalence of mental illness" among adults age 18+ and the "estimated 12-month prevalence of serious mental illness" among adults -- excluding substance use disorders -- according to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data included in a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report: Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates (PDF).
10,800
The number of men who are sexually assaulted each year in the military, according to Russell Strand, a retired Criminal Investigative Service special agent speaking at the Army's Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Program Summit last month, detailed in a Department of Defense press release. Just 1,134 of these men reported the attacks, Strand said -- roughly 13 percent. By way of comparison, of the roughly 8,000 military women sexually assaulted each year, 39% reported the crime.
23%
The prevalence of PTSD in a population of 4,945,897 Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraq Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans across 33 studies published between 2007 and 2013, according to a new paper to be published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders -- The Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans: A Meta-Analysis.
39%
The percentage of recruiters or recruiting candidates attending classes between October 2011 to July 2013 at the U.S. Army’s Recruiting and Retention School at Fort Jackson who were diagnosed with "mental health disorders (MHDs) and/or mental health problems (MHPs)," according to a recently published doctoral dissertation -- Mental Disorders, Mental Health Problems, and Treatment Among Army Recruiters and Recruiting Candidates, 2011-2013: An Examination of Current Rates in the Recruiting Population.