Military affairs beat: Study ties the time in combat to divorce risk

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'From the Keen-Sense-of-the-Obvious Department: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been hard on military marriages. The risk of divorce rises in direct relation to the length of time troops have spent deployed to combat zones, according to a new Rand Corp. study.

The results should come as no surprise, but the specifics of the study are interesting. Deployments most negatively affect women in the military. They face a greater chance of divorce than men. The study did not look at why.

Among couples married before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, those who experienced 12-month deployments to war zones were 28 percent more likely to become divorced within three years of marriage as compared with peers who experienced similar deployment before the wars began.'