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According to a BBC.com story: More than a quarter of U.S. soldiers met the criteria to be diagnosed with some of the most common mental disorders – depression, panic disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – prior to enlisting in the Army, and more than eight percent considered killing themselves at one time or another, according to a series of studies published in JAMA Psychiatry on Monday. Three research papers, a the culmination of five years of collaborative work by academic, government and military researchers, have been investigating the numerous military suicides. Ronald Kessler, a sociologist at Harvard University, lead one of the three studies. "The kinds of disorders that are the very common ones, you just can’t have a business and say I’m not going to take anybody like that" Kessler added. "Already, close to one third of the population is ineligible to enlist in the army. Now go into that two thirds and take the half who have had a mental illness, there’s nobody left." Whoa! Mr. Kessler's math doesn't add up. One half of two-thirds is one third, not zero. I'm sure he was just trying to make a point. And if not, he gets a free pass as he's a sociologist not a mathematician.