By the Numbers - Nov. 23, 2015
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$58.4 billion
"The national cost of suicides and suicide attempts in the United States in 2013," according to a new article in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior -- Suicide and Suicidal Attempts in the United States: Cost and Policy Implications.
75%
The percentage of military spouses responding to the Blue Star Families 2015 Military Family Lifestyle Survey who said that being a military spouse "had a negative effect on their ability to pursue a career."
The percentage of accidental deaths in the U.S. Army from 2005-2011 caused, respectively, by motor vehicles and drugs/alcohol, according to a December 2014 article in the journal Military Medicine -- Mortality Surveillance in the U.S. Army, 2005-2011. By way of comparison, in the U.S. general population, the two most common causes of accidental death were drugs/alcohol (36%) and motor vehicles (35%).
11
The number of times the United States has declared war against foreign countries, according to the most recent iteration of the Congressional Research Service report, Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2015 (PDF).