I was surfing local blogs as well as found something interesting on Brian Dennert’s blog at the Star - If you’ve not seen the ads against Proposition 8, observe them here before they too melt away
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Accoding to some sources, there might be hundreds of thousand of our service personnel The suicide rate of those under the age of 29, are more than twice as likely to committ suicide.  And that rate represents more than doubled in the last few years. Yet there's not sufficient support from the VA to help those in need.
A recent study in the journal Military Medicine examined rates of PTSD as well as the success of these VA programs among 120 service members returning from Iraq as well as Afghanistan.
They surveyed the returning service members on their PTSD symptoms, depression, alcohol use, as well as their utilize of VA mental health services. Their findings on behalf of mental health difficulties are quite alarming:

6% had PTSD
27% showed dangerous alcohol use
6% had difficulties with both PTSD as well as alcohol use

They also found that 62% of service members reported receiving some kind of mental health care since returning residence from Iraq or Afghanistan.   Here’s a link to PBS’ News Hour with about 12 minutes on this topic: health .
There is a local Ventura County story on a potential treatment of veterans suffering from PTSD, however, due to a required FDA news blackout during pending research as well as approval, the story shall have to wait until the spring to be told publicly.