This article stresses the importance of psychosomatic disorders in causing rejection of men examined for military service. The picture as a whole shows that of some 13 to 14 million examinations given, there were approx. 4-5 million discards[long dash]rejectees or men discharged from service. More than 1/3 of the rejections, and more than 40% of the discharges, were for neuropsychiatric reasons. Statistical data available show that there has been a marked increase in the % of men rejected for the following diseases having a psychosomatic basis since the beginning of the war: asthma, peptic ulcer, history of peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal syndromes, and neurocircula-tory asthenia. The data in the statistics cited give abundant evidence of the marked increase and perhaps doubling of incidence and rejection rates in the field of psychosomatic diseases. It is concluded that psychosomatic disorders are appearing in increasing frequency as a result of war stress and strain.