Operational commitments may, on occasions, make it impossible for every serviceman to be released from his duties.
The dilemma facing the psychiatrist is well described : that his efforts to save a patient's mental health, if successful, may simply cast the serviceman back into combat and death.
After the war, priority was given to the employment of returning servicemen.
In the economic arena, poor market conditions combined with official intransigence in preventing most former servicemen from making substantial gains in trade or transport.
Simultaneous transmission of different virus variants to garrisons crowded with military servicemen is expected to be a frequent phenomenon.
These observations indicate the range of problems that probably faced exservicemen, but war neurotic ex-servicemen met with further obstacles.
Most importantly, the respective national arrangements generated different notions of entitlement among servicemen.
Pilgrims were usually servicemen or bereaved family members who believed that they were going to a sacred place, often with religious motives.
