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2005-10-09 Iraq

Marines who fought in Fallujah return to Iraq

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-09 16:20|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 *knock-knock*

"Candygram"
"Achmed? Did you order a candygram?"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-09 17:27|| 2005-10-09 17:27|| Front Page Top

#2 > Trigg is on his third tour in Iraq in three years.

WOT? Screw the MSM, this is what's gonna lose us this war. Are we THAT overstretched?

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-10-09 19:53|| 2005-10-09 19:53|| Front Page Top

#3 No, it's that we have a very rapid rotation policy. Call it "home leave". It recognizes the fact that units, as well as individuals, do a lot better with naval-length tours than with long deployments.

There are all sorts of other benefits to the military. First and foremost, the quality of training skyrockets, with combat expert NCOs using real world "there I was" examples for the trainees. Nothing quite concentrates the mind like knowing you could be shipped out, but your morale is raised in knowing that they want you as prepared as possible.

By helping to keep the home situation stable, it also boosts morale. Problems are either "in the window" in which one spouse has to handle them, or "outside the window", in which the other spouse will be back to help.

Units get thoroughly refurbished back at home, and a lot of their problems get ironed out as well. Problems that cannot be adequately addressed at the front, but there are just far more resources to deal with back in the States.

R&D has been on a binge. In the history of the world there has never been so much face-to-face imput from the battlefield soldier to R&D, straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. It has caused generations of tech procurement in months, rather than years or decades. Some systems that were novel at the beginning of the war are already in their 7th fielded generation!, and under constant, blistering critique and demand for improvements and additions.

Oh, certainly it is a strain on the soldiers, but not a great a strain if they were deployed only once for a year or eighteen months. It also gives plenty of opportunity to wean out those individuals who either have had enough, were not cut out for the life, or just need to be removed from the front for their own good.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-09 20:14|| 2005-10-09 20:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Right MM, just like WWII when you deployed and didn't return to the states for years. Father had the pleasent opportunity to visit Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian islands before a wound sent him back stateside. Think his unit took more casualties. Were we stretched that thin then too?

Posted by Ebbugum Flavirt6621 2005-10-09 20:21|| 2005-10-09 20:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ..said while guarding a mosque where a large cache of insurgent weapons was being removed.

Someone better be looking into stringing up the imam(s) of that mosque.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-09 20:23|| 2005-10-09 20:23|| Front Page Top

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