By the Numbers: 14 August 2023
2.6%
2.6%
15
“When I'm forced to move families from installations, because their school will do nothing when their LGBT kid is being bullied—that worries me, because that's distracting from the mission, that's detracting from our readiness,” Alex Wagner, assistant Air Force secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, said earlier this month.
“If servicemembers are thinking and concerned about the experience their kids are having, they're not going to be focused on their jobs. They're not gonna be focused on their mission,” Wagner said.
237%
The projected percentage increase in female veterans over the age of 65 from 2021 to 2041, according to an article in The War Horse, "an award-winning nonprofit newsroom and the most trusted source for bulletproof reporting on the human impact of military service."
12.1%
The prevalence of trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD) in a sample of 3,618 post-9/11 veterans (22.7% female), according to an article published earlier this year in the journal Military Medicine -- Probable trauma associated sleep disorder in post-9/11 US Veterans.
8%