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DoD could open huge military tissue archive (headline not from The Onion)

For the “Things I Had No Idea The Government Had a Hoarder Strategy For” folder…. Military Times reports on an enormous archive of 32 million tissues used by service members since 1917, and moves to open it up to researchers. 

“The paraffin-encased samples include bits and bobs from service members who breathed mustard gas in World War I, contracted the Spanish Flu in 1918, were exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and encountered depleted uranium in the sands of Iraq.

There are samples from troops who contracted extremely rare diseases as well as thousands of common diseases — specimens Baker feels should be made available to researchers of other federal agencies if not academia.”

(HT to Austin Wright at Politico).

Nearly half of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans say civilian re-entry was hard


By SB Anderson

Latest from a recent Pew Research Center survey of 1,853 veterans:

While more than seven-in-ten veterans (72%) report they had an easy time readjusting to civilian life, 27% say re-entry was difficult for them—a proportion that swells to 44% among veterans who served in the ten years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Why do some veterans have a hard time readjusting to civilian life while others make the transition with little or no difficulty? To answer that question, Pew researchers analyzed the attitudes, experiences and demographic characteristic of veterans to identify the factors that independently predict whether a service member will have an easy or difficult re-entry experience.

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