"Stars and Stripes" newspaper has completed a survey of thousands of troops serving in Iraq, slight over a third of the respondents say their morale is low. An Earlier survey, an official US Army survey reported that more than half of the troops reported unit morale was low.
The "Stars and Stripes" survey included Air Force and Marine respondents, and clearly found higher morale in the ranks of the Air Force, though the survey method had to be altered to meet Official Air Force Requirements. http://stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=52
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17515&archive=true
The Army Survey was done several months ahead of "Stars and Stripes," and was a followup. The earlier Army Survey found lower morale. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/0...ional/w133525D22.DTL
Commentary on the "Stars and Stripes" survey from FOX news, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100269,00.html
and an opinion piece on military morale from the Salt Lake City Tribune.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5311075
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