From The L.A. Times:
The divorce rate in the armed forces increased slightly again in the last year as military marriages continued to bear the stress of the nation’s ninth year at war.
In the 2009 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, there were an estimated 27,312 divorces among the nearly 765,000 married members of the active-duty Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, according to figures provided by the Pentagon today.
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My Comment: Deployments lasting for a year. The stress of a love one being in a war zone. It is amazing that half of these marriages actually survive.
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