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By not in system - AOL News(July 6) -- More than 13,000 active-duty Army soldiers -- the equivalent of four combat brigades -- are sidelined as unfit for war because of injury, illness, or mental stress. ...
Thousands of Soldiers Unfit for War Duty
By David Wood - Politics DailyMore than 13,000 active-duty Army soldiers -- the equivalent of four combat brigades -- are sidelined as unfit for war because of injury, illness or mental stress. In an unmistakable sign that the Army is struggling with exhaustion after nine years of fighting, combat commanders whose units are headed to Afghanistan increasingly choose to leave behind soldiers who can no longer perform, putting additional strain on those who still can. The growing pool of "non-deployable'' soldiers make up roughly 10 percent of the 116,423 active-duty soldiers currently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands ...
Afghan Veterans Combat Stress -- With a Game of Paintball
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Brandon Turbeville, a 22-year-old Army specialist, lay in tall grass with his weapon, peering into the thickets where the enemy was approaching. He was patient. He breathed carefully. He waited, wanting to kill. The sun beat down and his scalp sweated and itched under his helmet and when he finally saw shapes moving behind a screen of saplings, he aimed carefully and fired, again and again. The battle ran hot. Then he ran out of ammunition and the enemy, whooping and hollering and firing from the hip, gleefully overran his unit's position. Turbeville sheepishly stood up ...
Army Suicides Grow, but This Soldier Was Saved
By David Wood - Politics DailyOn a dusty afternoon in a squalid U.S. Army base in eastern Baghdad, the world seemed to cave in on Spec. Joe Sanders. On daily patrols, soldiers around him were being killed and grievously wounded by improvised roadside bombs. The sweltering August heat and stink of Baghdad were oppressive. He was thousands of miles from home. And he had just learned that his wife -- his lifeline to the sane, normal world -- wanted a divorce. Alone in his barracks room at Forward Operating Base Rustamiyah, Sanders, a soft-spoken young man with a pleasant demeanor, seized his M-4 carbine, put the barrel under ...
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