Exemption from punishment of military servants unfit for military service but sentenced to service restriction, arrest or detention in a disciplinary battalion

Military Service for Mental Defectives

The object of this article is to offer information gained in examining mentally defective soldiers, to show their limitations, and the risks involved in keeping them in the Army, and to outline the way in which they are being dealt with. In civilian life we have to consider mental defect as a failure in social adaptation due mainly to lack of sufficient intelligence but frequently also to poor ...

Unfit for service: the implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment.

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the USA: challenges for military recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percentage of the US military-age population that exceeds the US Army's current active duty enlistment standards for w...

Als in the Military Unexpected Consequences of Military Service

A New View on Social Adaptation of the Military, Discharged from Military Service in Bulgaria

This article reviews the social adaptation of the military as a social process. There is an overview of adaptation concepts adopted in science and practice. There is an attempt to classify the types of adaptation based on the nature of the interaction, the type of adaptive environments, adaptive environment structural components and based on the psychological content. Social adaptation process ...

Research on Aging Military Veterans; Lifespan Implications of Military Service

S continued was associated with significantly elevated PTSD symptom severity at the time of no PTSD diagnosis. No evidence was found for an aggravation of PTSD due to stressors associated with aging. [Author Abstract] Elder, G.H., & Clipp, E.C. (1988). Combat experience, comradeship, and psychological health. In J.P. Wilson, Z. Harel, & B. Kahana (Eds.), Human adaptation to extreme stress: From...