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<p>By Cmdr. Jean Fisak, NC, deputy director, Naval Center for Combat &amp;<br>Operational Stress Control.<br><br>"In the past decade, more active duty females than ever before have experienced combat and operational stress. In modern warfare, the lines between combatants and non-combatants have blurred. Traditional frontlines have all but disappeared in the face of urban warfare.  Everyone in a warzone is vulnerable to enemy attack. And everyone is at risk of being injured. A large number of the injuries we’ve seen as a  result of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are psychological.  Invisible wounds like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Wartime experiences –being in a convoy that is attacked and seeing a fellow Marine injured or killed or working in a fl eet surgical hospital putting a Sailor back together after he’s stepped on an IED – can inflict psychological trauma and lead to PTSD."<br></p>
<br>Subjects: PTSD; women's health; suicide; mental health; Naval Center for Combat &amp; Operational Stress Control; Navy Medicine Live Blog;</div>
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