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The extra time granted CBS by its limited commercials was assigned to a six-minute Investigation by Armen Keteyian. After four months of research using Freedom of Information Act requests and analysis by biostatistician Steve Rathbun at the University of Georgia, Keteyian announced findings on a mental health crisis facing military veterans and those on active duty. Each year, as many as 7,000 soldiers or veterans commit suicide--specifically Keteyian collected data on just 45 of the 50 states, finding 6,256 suicides annually among veterans and 188 on active duty. Rathbun calculated the suicide rate for veterans as at least double that for non-veterans, maybe four times as high among twentysomethings. "There is no epidemic of suicide," Ira Katz, the VA's head of mental health, told Keteyian, "but suicide is a major problem."
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