Soldiers may also elect not to wear a combat patch. Controversies have arisen in recent years over brigade commanders' decisions to ban combat patches in certain situations. This has been done in an effort to make new recruits, who didn't have the patches, feel less excluded.
Cortisol and Stress: How Cortisol Levels Affect the Body. Cortisol and stress are connected and, although stress isn't the only reason for the release of cortisol into the blood stream, it is still known as a stress hormone. Every time that you are confronted with a stressful situation your body undergoes a fight or flight response and cortisol levels increase.
Too much or too little of anything can create problems. The same is true of cortisol, the stress hormone our adrenal glands produce. If you read my article Six Tips to Reduce the Stress Hormone, Cortisol, you know the health problems that result from keeping your body in a state of elevated cortisol.