Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dakota Yates waits in a light armored vehicle for a convoy to depart from a command post in Hokkaido, Japan, Aug. 16, 2017, during exercise Northern Viper 17. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ally Beiswanger
Soldiers fire an M777 towed 155 mm howitzer to support Iraqi security forces in northern Iraq, Aug. 15, 2017. (Cpl. Rachel Diehm/Army)Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules aircraft conduct division tactical navigation training with VMGR-152 as part of unit-level training Evergreen at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., Aug. 18, 2017. (Cpl. Joseph Abrego/Marine Corps)A family waves at the the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) as the ship arrives at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., Aug. 19, 2017. (MC2 Timothy Schumaker/Navy)An F-16 Fighting Falcon with the 555th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron - the Triple Nickel - takes off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2017. (Capt. Keenan Kunst/Air Force)
The project was scheduled to take 10 years and cost $16 billion. Nearly eight years later, only six of VA’s 170-plus medical sites are using the software.
The figures are the latest available from federal census data and suggest limited progress on the issue of suicide prevention by Veterans Affairs leaders.
