11.7%
The percentage of 2,409 California high school students with a parent in the military who "answered yes when asked if they had attempted suicide in the previous year," according to a Los Angeles Times article describing a study published in the March 2015 issue of European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry -- Suicidality among military-connected adolescents in California schools.
30,000
The number of Airmen who "may be struggling with unhealthy patterns of Internet use," according to survey results extrapolated from a RAND Corporation survey of 3,479 active-duty, guard, and reserve Airmen in 2012. The survey, discussed in a recent RAND report on problematic Internet use, used the 15-item Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 (GPIUS2) scale, measuring "indicators on undesirable behavior such as turning to the Internet when feeling down or lonely, thinking obsessively about going online, having difficulty controlling Internet use, and experiencing adverse life events due to Internet use." The full survey results were reported in an earlier RAND report -- Information and Communication Technologies to Promote Social and Psychological Well-Being in the Air Force.
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.