U.S. Army To Build Soldier "Resilience" To Fight Suicides, Violence

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12. Family life and relationships are continually strained or broken apart

with the pace of deployments in the last 10 years--you lose your emotional support system and you are stranded in a shithole for 6 months or a year, working 14 hour days with no breaks (my husband wasn't in a combat situation, but still went almost a month without a day off on his last deployment). This can wear down anybody, but then add the obvious stress of combat or PTSD...