"In January, the Denver post reported that the surgeon for Fort Carson's 3rd Combat Team acknowledged...that "borderline soldiers" were being sent to war because "we have been having issues reaching deployable strength."
GAO recently reported that among deployed troops out of Fort Benning, Fort Drum and Fort Stewart included soldiers with herniated disks and back pain, chronic knee pain, Type 2 diabetes and asthma.
CBS News reported that approximately 20,000 deployed troops are taking Paxil, Zoloft or Prozac to keep them on the lines.
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