More than 10 percent of medical evacuations from Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years have been for mental health reasons.
From October 2001 to September 2009, 5,480 troops were flown back to the U.S. or to Germany due to “mental disorders,” according to the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.
Most of the evacuations were for adjustment reactions or affective psychoses.
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