First, because it's been adopted in the entire United States Army,
we no longer have a control group.
So, everyone gets it.
So, the best we could do was as it was being rolled out slowly,
to look at people who had gotten it, and people who didn't have training.
And so, first the analyst found, so
there's a group of analyst who analyze the data, not us.
The Army is spending millions of dollars to see if this works.
So, what you find for optimism and for
coping skills is that the soldiers who have been trained in resilience, when
they're deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, they get better at those variables.
Where as the control group gets worse.
And then on about 8,000 soldiers
we have hard data on diagnosis.
And so, roughly if you've been through resilience training,
resilience training halves the rate of substance abuse the next 12
months after deployment, and it significantly lowers the amount of post
traumatic stress disorder, panic, and depression diagnosis combined.
So, it's become a regular program within the Army.
The Army has declared it officially effective.
It has the same status now as doing push-ups in the Army.
And importantly, from the very beginning, I told the Army that I did not want
them to be dependent on the University of Pennsylvania or on me for this program.
So, this is taught by soldiers now throughout all the forts of the Army.
So, the way that happens,
when 180 drill sergeants come to us and then we train them.
We then pick out the five very best and they become trainers of trainers,
and then the best of those become trainers of trainers of trainers.
So, now this has evolved to be a regular institution within the Army.
And it's my belief that General Casey indeed has
created an Army that's on the road to being
just as psychologically fit as it is physically fit.