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Background - Stress is very common among army individuals across the globe. More than half of Indian Army personnel seem to be under severe stress and the Army has been losing more personnel every year due to suicides Unless it is managed early, it leads to deterioration of Defence performance and overall dissatisfaction with life and different serious health problems including anxiety, depression, and suicide. The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of career-related stress among Army individuals. Method- A cross-sectional survey-based study was conducted on a sample of 50 army individuals selected by stratified random sampling at Army centre in 2021. Data was collected using the Percieved Stress Scale (PSS) through google sheets. Data analysis was done under the Social Science Packaging Software SPSS 21.0 version. The level of significance of association for multivariable was determined at P value <0.05Results: - Prevalence of stress among Army Individuals is 56% for low level of perceived stress and 44% individuals suffer from a moderate level of stress. Whereas no individual suffers from perceived high stressConclusion - This study showed that individuals who belong to the Indian army showed intermediate and low levels of stress. Thus there is a significant amount of stress on army individuals.