30.1% of all Veterans have at least 1 disability.
*5,000 or more military children have lost a parent to combat.
Veteran suicide are as much as 5 to 8 thousand a year which averages 22 a day. Since the advent of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 78,000 American men and women soldiers have been wounded or injured and 320,00 vets experienced traumatic brain injury.
An additional 200,000 became homeless because of mental and physical injuries from the wars.
Since 2001, more than 3,600 military spouses have been widowed due to war. Military widows face their worst nightmare when they receive that dreadful knock on the door by two military in uniform notifying them of their spouses death. There have been 29,213 deaths of active duty military between 1990 to 2011.
2,990 service members died by suicide while on active duty between 1998-2011.
2 million connected military children of active service members.
24,325 firefighters were injured on the fire-ground in 2016.
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation found that fire departments are three times more likely to have a firefighter commit suicide than to lose their lives on the job.
21,900 Emergency Medical Service Workers were injured in the line of duty in 2016. The Journal of EMS released a study in 2015 that found that 37% of surveyed providers have contemplated suicide at least once during their career. <br><br>Compare this percentage to the CDC’s national average of the general population (3.7%).
About 12% are female.
There are 21,541 names engraved on the walls of the National Wall of Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
There have been 58,627 assaults against law enforcement officers in 2016, resulting in 16,677 injuries.
