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Article: THE LONG, DARK TUNNEL: SERVICE MEMBERS, DEPLOYMENT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
If deployment is a tunnel, deployed service members are the train. Like a car on a track, they focus on their mission at hand to get through the days away from home. However, when the tunnel is behind them, service members often struggle to slow the train down without derailing.
For a majority of service members, the hardship of deployment occurs mainly when they return home, instead of during the deployment, according to Dr. Eric N. Leong, chief of behavioral health for the Stuttgart Army Health Clinic.
During the "reintegration phase" of deployment, service members are forced to "do a 180" by living in the ...