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Article: Iraq war causes many soldiers to quit Britain's reserve army, leaves other service members with mental problems
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- June 15, 2006
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THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-15-2006
Dateline: LONDON
Britain's reserve army has seen more than 15,000 of its service members quit since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
The Territorial Army, which lost 5,000 personnel in the last year alone, now has a total of 32,000 service members, 7,000 below its full strength, the defense ministry said, confirming information that was obtained by the Scottish National Party in a Freedom of Information request and reported Thursday in a front-page article in The Daily Telegraph.
In another development, the government released new figures on Wednesday night showing that hundreds of ...