Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling
...d in Salon from Fort Benning in March, redeploying troops who, doctors say, are medically unfit, altering medical profiles so that they can kill again. It pushes antidepressants on the psychically damaged in the field to keep up the numbers, as Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman stunningly detailed in the H...Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease
..., tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. Some foreign troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have also been bitten by the sandflies and have developed the disease. NATO saw about 150 cases in Afghanistan in 2005 and about 12 last year, a force spokeswoman said. NATO camps have been fortified to try to stop the sandf...One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems
... General Donald Arthur said more than one-third of troops and veterans currently suffer from problems such a...ting the Army's Fort Carson in Colorado where some troops have said their pleas for mental health care went unanswered or were met with ridicule. In its rep...Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam
... the disease might spread among hundreds of Indian troops deployed along the Indo-Bhutan border for counter-insurgency operations. "We are providing soldiers with specially designed medicated mosquito nets and insect repellents as a precaution against malaria," an army commander said. In the last five y...Afghan Opium Production Soaring Out of Control
...ite the presence of more than 30,000 international troops there, and adds that Afghanistan is unlikely to regain real security until the production of illegal drugs is tackled. In the 1980s, Afghanistan produced some 30% of the world's opium, but now that figure has more than tripled, the UN document say...US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers
... found that more than half of one group of wounded troops arriving at Walter Reed Army Medical Center had br...l health problems loom large. More than a third of troops received psychological counseling shortly after returning from Iraq, and a third of those were diagn...Iraq's Orphans Left to the Kindness of Strangers
...he government-run facility, the American and Iraqi troops found 24 boys aged between three and 15 years, many showing signs of severe neglect and starvation. Medics initially feared at least one of the boys was dead. He had "thousands of flies covering his body, unable to move any part of his body, you kno...Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital
A senior British Army surgeon said troops injured in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanista...d hospitals, newspapers reported Sunday . American troops fighting in the Vietnam War 40-odd years ago were treated far more quickly than British soldiers now...Robot Hosts South Korean Wedding
...machine gun-toting sentry robot that could support troops along the heavily fortified border with North Korea....War Veterans Lack Adequate Mental Health Care: Pentagon Report
...force report: "An Achievable Vision." Studies of troops three and four months after returning from Iraq an...d psychological symptoms. The problems increase as troops are repeatedly deployed, the study said. A study published Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology a...War Stimulates Research Blitz in Prosthetics Industry
...ms to restore functionality to the point that some troops have returned to battle something virtually unheard of until now. Germany's Otto Bock health care, the world's biggest manufacturer of prostheses, also has wartime roots. The company's founder and namesake "was considered a little bit like the Hen...China Declares War on Unsafe Foods for Soldiers
...ll monitor the supply chain providing food for the troops and raise hygiene standards among the outside food suppliers that provide 90 percent of the PLA's food....Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse
... commanded by officers who constantly exhorted the troops "not to act like women." In an atmosphere of civil war militarism, he said, he felt equally threatened by the guerrillas, the armed forces and members of the right-wing squads who called themselves social cleansing committees. "To them, people like m...