As our country celebrates this Veterans Day, all of us should reflect on some sobering realities. Over 1.7 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the past seven years, nearly half from the National Guard and Reserves. Almost one-half of the members of the National Guard and Reserves return from deployments experiencing some form of post-combat psychological injury. Frontline combat units of the Army and Marine Corps are serving their fourth and fifth tours. Recruitment standards have dropped to the point where less than 83% of Army recruits have high school diplomas.
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