Deployment stories:
Troops' post-deployment questionnaires missing
Nov 19th, 2009 - Omaha
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional investigators said Thursday that tens of thousands of questionnaires aimed at measuring the mental and physical health of returning combat troops can't be found. As a result...
British soldier killed in Afghanistan 'was still waiting for new body armour'
Nov 17th, 2009 - Telegraph
Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, from Cambridge, enrolled in the Territorial Army while at university and was mobilised for pre-Afghan deployment training in June.
But just...Army Mom Confined To Base After Skipping Deployment To Care For Baby
Nov 17th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. Now she's confined to the Georgia base where she is stationed...Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby
Nov 16th, 2009 - Omaha
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia-based Army cook and single mother could face criminal charges after she refused to deploy to Afghanistan, saying no one could care for her 10-month-old son.
Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists
Nov 6th, 2009 - New York Times
Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their experiences are gruesome, their distress lasting and the process of recovery exhausting. The repeated...



