One In Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression. According to a recent RAND study nearly 20% of returning troops report symptoms... read more Military sees Spike in Number of PTSD Cases. The number of soldiers and Marines diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2007, according to statistics released by the Army’s surgeon general... read more ABC News Report: Mentally Unstable Soldiers Redeploying to Iraq. The Army's chief psychiatrist, Dr. Elspeth Ritchie, agrees with the Rand Corp.'s estimate that 300,000 service members have demonstrated post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Some are returning to the battlefront, although the Army is not keeping track of how many. read more CBS News: Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans twice that of other Americans read more Combat Marine suicides doubled in 2007 Drinking Problems Greater Among Returning Combat Veterans. The first study found that veterans coming home from combat were 63 percent more likely to report new-onset heavy drinking than were military personnel that hadn't been deployed to combat zones. read more | 
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