Fort Drum

Fort Drum: The Tip of a Tragic Iceberg

What happens when you deploy troops who
have seen high intensity combat time and time again with inadequate
dwell time between tours? You see skyrocketing mental health issues.

After months of investigative work,
talking to our troops and veterans, we released
a report on the situation at Fort Drum in Watertown, New York.

Since 9/11, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team has been deployed for more
than forty months, more than any other brigade in the Army, and we
are seeing what is nothing short of a cry for help from the men and
women on the base; a cry we will answer in Wisconsin, which has seen many of its soldiers deployed from Fort McCoy.

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