“Dwell Time” Shown to be Critical for Soldiers’ Mental Health
December 21st, 2009
As concerns continue to mount about the mental health of United States soldiers, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been busy developing numerous studies and strategies to find new ways of improving psychological well-being among the armed forces. Recently, the Center concluded a study which found that “dwell time,” or time spent in the United States between active combat deployments, was an essential component of recovery. The study is being hailed as significant because of its identification of the lower threshold for mental health recovery-–three years–a figure which far out-spans the one year most soldiers currently receive.
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Armed personnel need three years?! While it may be tru, I do not think that is really possible for the armed forces to give… a break of three years…there need to be alternative ways to distress…
Well I think they can adopt the formula of rotation… send a group of troops for a pre-specified time, after which they will be replaced with another group. At this point of time, the first group comes back to the country and begins its “dwell time”. This way, they can ensure that everybody gets their required “dwell time”.
^^ It is a good idea, but I don’t know if they even have so many troops in our armed forces looking at the number that are already there and a newer very unnecessary additional of 30000 more troops…
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