Military service men and women face a number of challenges upon returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Stressors prior to, during, and after deployment can greatly affect veterans' mental health status, with rates of depression, alcohol abuse, and relationship dissati…
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This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the experience of U.S. Army National Guard soldiers returning to civilian employment following a military deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Review of the relevant literature revealed that this area is largely unstudied - despite…
The United States Armed Forces were once comprised primarily of single young men. The military began to diversify as servicemen married and started families. As women joined the service a growth in military partnerships and dual-parent military households became increasingly pre…
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological effects of deployment in the information age. Specifically it explored the psychological impact of the internet, and other multimedia on military personnel who utilized this technology while deployed in Iraq and Afghanis…
This study investigated the extent to which current deployments, past deployments, and number of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan experienced by a military service member's significant other contributes to depression, anxiety, and stress. In addition, the study investigated t…
The effects of a long-term combat deployment on a soldier's physical fitness are not well understood. In active duty soldiers, combat deployment reduced physical fitness compared to pre-deployment status, but no similar research has been performed on Army National Guard soldiers…
A cohort of 418 United States Air Force (USAF) personnel from over 15 different bases deployed to Morocco in 1994. This was the first study of its kind and was designed with two primary goals: to determine if the USAF was medically prepared to deploy with its changing mission in…
This purpose of this mixed methodology study was to identify and examine the motivational factors that positively and negatively influence civilian U.S. government employees to deploy to high-risk environments. U.S. government leaders continue to increase government civilian par…
After more than five years of ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has continued to wage the war on terror as its number one priority. As the two campaigns have brought turbulence to military families in terms of preserving marriages and military careers, military leade…
Over 1,000,000 service members were deployed away from their families in the first 5 years since the start of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq, and over 350,000 service members experienced two or more deployments. Although deployments disrupt the contribution o…
Objective . Utilization of Army National Guard troops in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a critical change in the mission requirements for the Reserve branches of the military. Although much prior research has documented the impact of deployment in the live…
The purpose of this research study was to identify gaps in understanding of the specialized educational needs of active-duty military service members enrolled in higher education and to develop new insights that may be helpful to colleges and universities in designing initiative…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the systemic effects of trauma, particularly war-related traumatic stress as a result of military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, in a sample of recent war veterans and their spouses. With recent…
Abstract The United States armed forces have been involved with the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 and 2003 respectively. Characteristic of these missions has been rapid and repeated service member deployments. Extended absences for operational duty power…
Since 1988, the Department of Defense (DoD) has conducted wide-scale surveys about the sexual assault experiences of active-duty military members. Despite the growing body of research on this topic and widespread gender integration efforts for female soldiers, scholars still lac…
The United States Army has experienced an extremely high operation tempo in the past nine years supporting ongoing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ongoing combat operations have placed an enormous toll on equipment, soldiers and families. Focusing on the imperativ…
Esta investigación tuvo como propósito identificar, describir y analizar las necesidades críticas de las familias militares pertenecientes a la Reserva y Guardia Nacional del Ejército de Estados Unidos cuando han tenido la experiencia de una movilización por combate militar como…