The end-of-mission airlock: More than a homecoming tool for French Army soldiers
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Abstract
Returning from war missions can be difficult for French Army soldiers. An alteration of their relationship to time, called a ritual of suspense, allows soldiers sent on missions to exist in a continuous cognitive present state that helps protect them from the stressors of war. The focus of this anthropological comparative study was on the end-of-mission airlock, a practice designed to help soldiers exit from this ritual, to leave an in-the-moment mindset and better reintegrate into civilian/garrison life. Using an ethnographic framework of operational projection (from preparation for war to return) with two French Army groups, this article explores the lived reality of soldiers. As one of the two groups observed was unable to complete an end-of-mission airlock as planned, a comparative analysis was conducted to explain the impact of end-of-mission airlocks on soldiers' abilities to return to the realities of civilian/garrison life after being in a theatre of war. The comparison indicates the incomplete airlock resulted in a failure to re-anchor in a tri-partitioned time (past-present-future) as measured by soldiers' ability to decompress, increase health and well-being, and limit drug consumption. Without a way to exit the ritual of suspense, soldiers remain in a continuous present state. Descriptive results of this study provide a complementary basis for exploring end-of-mission airlocks as a protective link for the mental health of deployed French military personnel that could be reinforced based on this implicit social process.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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