From Nextgov.com: Pre-deployment health screening reduces behavioral problems, study shows

Service was required to implement such an assessment program 14 years ago.

An Army study released earlier this week concluded a new pre-deployment health screening process helped reduce combat stress, psychiatric and behavioral disorders, and suicidal thoughts among troops. But veterans advocates said the service lags 14 years behind mandates to conduct such assessments before troops deploy to combat.

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