From The Associated Press, 5/4/07:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6606159,00.html
Deployments Risk Troops' Mental Health
By HOPE YEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The military is putting already-strained troops at greater risk of
mental health problems because of repeated deployments to Iraq and
Afghanistan, a Pentagon panel said Thursday in warning of an
overburdened health system.
Issuing an urgent warning, the Defense Department's Task Force on
Mental Health chaired by Navy Surgeon General Donald Arthur said more
than one-third of troops and veterans currently suffer from problems
such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
With an escalating Iraq war, those numbers are expected to worsen, and
current staffing and money for military health care won't be able to
meet the need, the group said in a preliminary report released
Thursday.
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