It's multiple deployments.
Those multiple deployments are like hammer blows.
Because of multiple deployments to combat zones, Colonel Dolinger said, "they just needed more help".
What about the military families pushed to the breaking point by unprecedented multiple deployments?
Like many veterans with multiple deployments, he remembers one more fondly than the others.
Among them were the wives of soldiers and sailors who have served multiple deployments abroad.
Multiple deployments, he said, had left veterans with damage not just to their bodies but "to their souls".
Multiple deployments eroded Sergeant Trevino's marriage and worsened his mental health problems until, in 2006, he killed his wife, Carol, and then himself.
Both Dr. Marmar and a colleague at the medical center, Dr. Karen Seal, noted the link between multiple deployments and an increased risk of mental health problems.
This would be an urgent problem in peacetime; it is worse when women, like all service members, have spent years dealing with multiple deployments.
I've noticed that even after multiple deployments, as soon as I arrive in-country I repeat such a speech to myself.
