By The Numbers: 28 August 2023
80%
80%
9.7%
The percentage of 3,993 National Guard unit (NGU) service members activated in support of COVID-19 who "met the criteria for probable PTSD," according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine -- National Guard Deployment in Support of COVID-19: Psychological and Behavioral Health.
2.6%
15
“When I'm forced to move families from installations, because their school will do nothing when their LGBT kid is being bullied—that worries me, because that's distracting from the mission, that's detracting from our readiness,” Alex Wagner, assistant Air Force secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, said earlier this month.
“If servicemembers are thinking and concerned about the experience their kids are having, they're not going to be focused on their jobs. They're not gonna be focused on their mission,” Wagner said.
237%
The projected percentage increase in female veterans over the age of 65 from 2021 to 2041, according to an article in The War Horse, "an award-winning nonprofit newsroom and the most trusted source for bulletproof reporting on the human impact of military service."