This study investigates prior reports of high neuropsychological symptom validity test (SVT) failure rates in post-deployed Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) active and veteran military personnel, using a large, multi-site sample (N = 214) drawn from three levels of the Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Polytrauma System of Care. The sample fai...

CONTEXT The US military has conducted population-level screening for mental health problems among all service members returning from deployment to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other locations. To date, no systematic analysis of this program has been conducted, and studies have not assessed the impact of these deployments on mental health care utilization after deployment. OBJECTIVES To determine th...

1615 Sleep Patterns and Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan—Seelig et al ACCORDING TO A 2008 REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION, AMERICANS ARE WORKING MORE AND SLEEPING LESS, WITH THE AVERAGE work day lasting 9 hours 28 minutes and time in bed only 6 hours 55 minutes.1 The US military is at particularly high risk for sleep disturbances due to hazardous working conditions, inconsistent wor...

The article discusses the results of implementation official Mongolia's neutral foreign policy and public opinion regarding Russian-Ukrainian conflict Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO), analyzes a poll Mongolia organized by Mongolian Public Opinion Foundation «Sant Maral» German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, influence pro-Western, pro-American, antiRussian information warfare p...

WHEN U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to Phase III (Decisive Operations) of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on 1 May 2003, one could almost hear the global sigh of relief from a world that naively assumed the “hard work” was finished.2 But those in a position to appreciate the complex operational environment understood all too well that the hard work was far from over. Operation Iraq...

The 61 personnel, 60 male, evacuated from the Gulf to Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital on medical grounds between late October 1990 and mid March 1991 are reviewed with particular regard to previous medical history, previous medication, and appropriate PULHHEEMS grading. The percentage evacuated was 0.24% of Army personnel involved in "Operation Granby" which is considered acceptably small.