Blog posts with the tag "By the Numbers"

By the Numbers: 15 October 2018

9%
The percentage by which soldiers deployed to combat zones are more likely to attend religious services weekly when compared to "their counterparts assigned to non-combat overseas deployments," according to a recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Death, Trauma and God: The Effect of Military Deployments on Religiosity. Soldiers deployed to combat zones are also 9% more likely to engage in private prayer, according to the researchers.

By the Numbers: 24 September 2018

7,023
The number of Active Duty Service members who "who received a psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq or Afghanistan between 2001 and 2013," according to a new article in the journal Military Medicine -- Psychiatric Aeromedical Evacuations of Deployed Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel During Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn.

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