9.4%
The percentage of Service members who "reported probable depression," according to a research brief based on the recently released 2015 Department of Defense Health Related Behaviors Survey from the RAND Corporation.
14%
The percentage of military casualties in "Non-Overseas Contingency Operations" (Non-OCO) 2006 that were related to accidents involving substance abuse, according to a new brief from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) -- Recent Trends in Active-Duty Military Deaths.
1/3
The proportion of "US military casualties among service members evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan" caused by "non-battle injuries," according to a recent article in the journal JAMA Surgery -- A 12-Year Analysis of Nonbattle Injury Among US Service Members Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The article also noted that non-battle injuries were the cause of 11.5% of all deaths among this cohort.
1
The number of counties among 3,142 in the U.S. in which no military Veterans live, according to a Military Times article about a new study by the Purdue Military Families Research Institute (MFRI) and the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) -- Measuring Communities: The State of Military and Veteran Families in the United States.
35.9%
The percentage of military spouses of Service members with 2-5 years of service who "met criteria for at least one psychiatric condition," according to new article in the journal Depression and Anxiety -- Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in United States military spouses: The Millennium Cohort Family Study.