Facing problems of recruitment and retention, the Army has
turned to unorthodox measures to keep its soldiers happy. At the end of March,
18 military couples (in all but one case, the husband was the soldier) gathered
at an Army-hosted retreat in an effort to bring one of the less talked about
casualties of war—stable marriages—into the open. In the wake of 15-month
deployments, divorce rates among officers shot up from 2.9 percent to 3.9
percent in 2004. And studies show that war puts a deep strain on the couples
who decide to stay together as well.
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