Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao Urges Leaders to Confront Suicide ‘Head On’

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao addresses the Navy and Marine Corps on suicide awareness, telling leaders they have a duty to know the people under them and to ask direct questions when they suspect someone is having thoughts of suicide.

Cao says the rising tide of suicide must be confronted head on, and rejects the idea that talking about it creates a social contagion, calling that thinking a fallacy unsupported by data. He tells service members that ending their lives transfers pain to family and shipmates, and urges them to find something to live for.

Sources: US Navy (YouTube)