Sailors operate landing craft air cushions during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
Sailors operate landing craft air cushions during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
Sailors operate landing craft air cushions during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2023. (MCS3 Eric Moser/Navy)
Sailors operate landing craft air cushions during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
Sailors operate landing craft air cushions during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2023. (MCS3 Eric Moser/Navy)
Sailors conduct pre-dive checks during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
Sailors prepare an underwater vehicle to search for debris during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
Sailors prepare to conduct a search for debris during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
A sailor conducts a search for debris with an underwater vehicle during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023. (MCS1 Ryan Seelbach/Navy)
A landing craft air cushion approaches the well deck of the dock landing ship USS Carter Hall on Feb. 7, 2023, during efforts to recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down Feb. 4 over the Atlantic Ocean. (Lt. j.g. Jerry Ireland/Navy)
Sailors recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, while the dock landing ship USS Carter Hall transits nearby, Feb. 5, 2023. (MCS1 Tyler Thompson/Navy)
Sailors recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023. (MCS1 Tyler Thompson/Navy)
A Coast Guard helicopter flies over a debris field during recovery efforts of a high-altitude surveillance balloon Feb. 4, 2023. (Lt. j.g. Jerry Ireland/Navy)
United States Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, has released additional images of the efforts to recover the Chinese balloon that floated across the U.S.
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.
