Battlefield camaraderie yields long-term dividends for veterans, study finds
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
The benefits of wartime camaraderie extend far beyond the battlefield, a new UCLA study of U.S. Civil War veterans suggests. Veterans who served in military units characterized by a strong esprit de corps were much less likely decades later to die of a stroke or heart condition than veterans from less cohesive companies, two UCLA economists have found.