<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/stories/2013/august/080113dodmilitarystudy.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><homepage/><pubDate>08/07/2017 06:04:18 PM</pubDate><title>New Study Examines Impact of Military Deployment on Families</title><subtitle/><description>The global war on terror may be winding down as U.S. troops pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq and return home, but suicide rates of U.S. service members reached an all-time high last year, a symptom of much bigger problems for military families who experience deployment, according to Candice Alfano, an associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Houston.</description><author>Melissa Carroll</author><author-email>mcarroll@uh.edu</author-email><author-phone/><image/><categories>Research</categories></item>