How does that compare with earlier success rates in treating soldiers suffering from PTSD?
For that kind of numbers, I would refer you to the Army and to the MHAT [Mental Health Advisory Team] study. [Editor’s Note: See the “Readings” section of this Web site for the study.] They looked at that. I just don’t have that kind of numbers available to me right now. But can you give us a ballpark figure? I can tell you that the combat stress control units, when the MHAT looked at those units, their return-to-duty rate was better than 95 percent. If you evacuated the people … [to] the combat stress or the combat support hospitals in Iraq, the return-to-duty rate was about 70 percent, if I remember correctly. If they went to Kuwait, it dropped to 50 percent. If they went to Germany, it dropped to about 10 percent. And if they went all the way back to the United States, nobody came back to theater. So the treatment for that particular type, for the combat and operational stress reactions, the combat stress control units have a very good return-to-duty rate. What percentage of soldi
