Fort Hood tragedy: Repeat deployments take increasing toll

Marching off to far-away battles used to be a dramatic, once-in-a-generation event at Fort Hood.

Soldiers left to the sound of martial music, met the enemy in battle and then came home to years of peace.

But since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, two divisions have gone to war, returned, and gone to war again and again and again, a process of revolving-door deployments so stressful that it's gotten a name — living in the new ... Full Story »

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