Psychiatric diagnoses and punishment for misconduct: the effects of PTSD in combat-deployed Marines

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Demographic Characteristics in Three Groups of Marines Corps Personnel, 2001-2007

Characteristic	Non-war deployed	War deployed	Excluded from study sample^†
	N (%) n = 13 944	N (%) n = 77 881	N (%) n = 72 939
Accession age
<19 years	6795 (48.7)	37 698 (48.4)	32 719 (44.9)**
≥19 years	7149 (51.3)	40 183 (51.6)	40 219 (55.1)**
Sex
Male	12 296 (88.2)	74 962 (96.3)**	65 780 (90.2)**
Female	1648 (11.8)	2919 (3.7)**	7159 (9.8)**
Race/ethnicity
Caucasian	9050 (64.9)	55 942 (71.8)**	54 191 (74.3)**
African American	1653 (11.9)	5504 (7.1)**	5554 (7.6)**
Hispanic	2171 (15.6)	11 150 (14.3)**	7524 (10.3)**
Other/mixed/missing	1070 (7.7)	5285 (6.8)**	5670 (7.8)
AFQT score
Low (0-50)	4047 (29.0)	26 409 (33.9)**	21 276 (29.2)**
Medium (51-70)	5006 (35.9)	26 860 (34.5)**	26 291 (36.0)**
High (71-99)	4891 (35.1)	24 612 (31.6)**	24 992 (34.3)**

AFQT, Armed Forces Qualification Test.
^†Individuals who served <6 months of service, were an officer or a warrant officer, did not deploy before the end of the study period, changed military branches during the study time frame (such as from the Marines to the Army), or received hazardous duty pay but did not deploy to Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kuwait, were not eligible for the study.
*Statistically different from the non-war-deployed reference group (p < 0.05).
**Statistically different from the non-war-deployed reference group (p < 0.01).

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