The novelty of this study comes from many facets. Prior research has been conducted on combat veterans and non combat veterans. However, in prior research, non combat veterans have been defined as veterans who were about to undergo war zone deployment. The level of stress in these soldiers are already going to be heightened at this point which already starts the study off with a major flaw. After experiencing war zone deployment, the subjects have then been tested again as a repeated measure to compare the levels of post traumatic stress disorder after experiencing war. This study intends on targeting male subjects who never went to war to begin with but are living the military lifestyle and have undergone the rigorous military training of