Military is no closer to understanding how many deployments are too many

Military is no closer to understanding how many deployments are too many. Why?

Because they didn't care about what they knew back then!

Researchers wrestle with how many deployments are too many
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

After nearly 11 years of war and hundreds of millions of dollars in research on the mental health of troops, the military is no closer to understanding how many deployments are too many for individual soldiers, researchers say.

Military leaders have said the nation has never fought wars this long with this small of a military, deploying troops over and over. Yet questions about how many times a soldier can recycle into combat without psychological harm remain unanswered, reseachers say.

"I think it's definitely disappointing that we don't know. I wish we did," says retired Navy Capt. William Nash, a psychiatrist studying resiliency in Marine battalions.
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