The Mental State Of U.K. Troops Serving In Afghanistan

The Royal Highland Fusiliers parade through Glasgow to mark their return from
a tour of Afghanistan (Andrew Milligan)

Troops In Afghanistan Nine Times More Likely To
Suffer Stress Disorder -- Times Online

Nearly 4,000 new mental health cases were reported in the Armed Forces last year, according to Ministry of Defence figures.

Women in the Forces also suffered from a higher rate of mental disorder than their male counterparts. Seven hundred servicewomen, some of whom will have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, were assessed last year as having a form of mental health illness.

Of the 868 patients treated between October and December, the number of women with mental disorders was the equivalent of 8 per 1,000 compared with 4 per 1,000 men.

Women increasingly have taken on frontline roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. Corporal Sarah Bryant, of the Intelligence Corps, was the first servicewoman killed in Afghanistan when the Snatch Land Rover in which she was travelling with three colleagues from 23 SAS was blown up by a landmine in June.

Read more ....

My Comment: For Canadian troops, the exact opposite is the case. There is clearly something wrong in the British Army and their political masters.