UK: Military doctors have found evidence suggesting that Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel are at greater risk of mental health problems than other service personnel because of their extremely dangerous work.
The standard six-month tours that EOD personnel serve in Afghanistan could also be cut to relieve the strains on them.
Last month, Captain Lisa Jade Head of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, became the latest “high threat” operator to be killed clearing explosives in Afghanistan.
In February, an inquest into the death of Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid, from the same regiment, heard that he had appeared “under pressure” and “rushed” on the day he died in an explosion in 2009.
Read more at The Telegraph
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