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The U.S. military’s ban on open homosexuality has become an increasingly salient issue since its implementation in 1993 and its repeal in 2011. The military is an organization with a unique professional and social organization.

Women are being deployed at increasing rates. This article reviews literature related to the risk and protective factors that explain varied levels of adaptation for servicewomen and their families.

Purpose: Many military women are being called to separate from their children to go to war. Most previous research has focused upon paternal, rather than, maternal, separation.

The purpose of this study was to identify factors that are predictive of, or associated with, postconcussion symptom

reporting after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the U.S. military. Participants were 125 U.S.

Following repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy, nearly one million lesbian, gay, and bisexual veterans and service members may increasingly seek access to Veterans Affairs services (G. Gates, 2004; G. J. Gates, 2010).

The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell offered legal equality to sexual minorities in the military.

Despite perceptions that infidelity is common among military and veteran

populations, there is relatively little evidence documenting the prevalence

of extramarital sex among persons with a history of military service or its

consequences for marital stability.

A significant number of military personnel report engaging in or experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). To advance current research and understanding of this behavior, we conducted a methodological review of the literature on IPV in military personnel and veterans.

The need to understand the impact of war on military families has never been greater than during the past decade, with more than three million military spouses

and children affected by deployments to Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring&nbsp