Military divorces steady at 3.3%
The divorce rate in the armed forces held steady last year at 3.3% despite the stress that marriages are under during persistent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some veterans questioned whether the figure, reported by the Pentagon, presents an accurate picture. But Defense officials credited efforts in recent years to support couples enduring uncommonly long separations and other hardships because of those wars.
The divorce rate represented more than 25,000 failed marriages among the nearly 755,000 married active duty troops in all military branches between Oct. 1, 2006, and Oct. 1, 2007.
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