Stars and Stripes: GROUND TRUTH (survey on troop morale in Middle East)

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¶ Many Reserve and National Guard respondents said they were unhappy
with a number of things, just as letter writers from those units had said in
letters to the newspaper. They said they often felt like second-class soldiers
who don’t receive the same equipment, support and treatment as their
active-duty counterparts.

¶ When asked how worthwhile they thought the war in Iraq was for the
United States, the split among all those responding was 67 percent saying it
was “worthwhile,” “probably worthwhile” or “very worthwhile,” with 31
percent saying it was of “little value” or of “no value at all.”

¶ Asked about their personal morale, 34 percent overall rated it as “low” or
“very low,” 27 percent said it was “high” or “very high,” and virtually all the
rest called it “average.”

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