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| Pentagon Orders Longer Tours for Soldiers in Iraq |
| 2007-04-12 |
| All active-duty Army troops now in Iraq or Afghanistan or headed to either country will serve 15-month tours of duty, up from the usual 12-month tours, effective immediately, the Pentagon announced today. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called the change “a difficult and necessary interim step” and said it would at least give soldiers and their families more predictability than they have now. The change will not affect National Guard or Army Reserve troops, who will continue to serve 12-month tours. Nor will it affect the Marine Corps, whose members are deployed overseas for seven months and come home for six months, Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take. Managed properly, 15 month deployments shouldn't be a problem. US troops have historically been on longer deployments than that. Most of the impact would be later on, in the form of reduced re-elistments. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-04-12 20:10 |
| #5 The US armed forces must be enlarged to deal with the multitude of foreign fronts where radical Islamists present a threat, and that holds true even if we were to "declare victory" and abandon Iraq today. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-04-12 19:31 |
| #4 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take. What's the number Badanov? 40 days of sustained combat? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-12 17:42 |
| #3 I hope the brass remembers that there is a limit on how much people can take. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-04-12 14:45 |
| #2 This also defers the cost of readying and deploying replacements while hoping that Congress will eventually get its act together and pass the supplemental. |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-04-12 02:22 |
| #1 Again, Dubya is in "FORTRESS ME" mode - he's NOT gonna pullout or re-deploy or "end the war now" as anti-US OWG, 2008-obsessed DemoLefties and anti-US international agendists PC/PDeniably want. Dubya & Admin are ENTRENCHING FOR BEYOND 2008 > 2008 = Clinton 90's - Dems wanna give full credit to themselves in case Radical Islam fails to initiate PDeniable, "justified" Amer Hiroshima(s), i.e. elect a PRO-ISOLATIONIST, PRO-RETREAT, PRO-ANTI US OWG-SWO DEM POTUS BY BLOWING UP WASHINGTON DC + USG, etal. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-12 00:48 |