AFGHAN SOLDIERS DESERTING

"At least one in seven Afghan soldiers walked off the job during the first six months of this year... Between January and June, more than 24,000 soldiers walked off the job, more than twice as many as in the same period last year, according to the NATO statistics. In June alone, more than 5,000 soldiers deserted, nearly 3 percent of the 170,000-strong force... At one point this summer, the pace of desertions climbed to an annualized rate of 35 percent..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/more-afghan-soldiers-deserting-the-army/2011/08/31/gIQABxFTvJ_story.html