| Posted by fluffy ® , Sep 09,2003,11:09 | MetroBlab |
Sept. 9, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like active duty troops held longer than expected in Iraq, National Guard and reservists also are having their tours of duty extended, defense officials said Tuesday.
With the Army stretched thin by the Iraq campaign, the global war on terror and other duty around the world, officials ordered that Guard and Army Reserve troops now in Iraq and surrounding countries serve 12-month tours.
The new order, signed Friday night and not publicly announced, covers some 20,000 people and means some of them will remain months longer than they thought they would, officials said.
There are 130,000 Americans -- including active duty -- inside Iraq and more than 40,000 more in Kuwait, Qatar and so on.
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/09/09/extended_duty/index.html
| Posted by lilamy ® , Sep 09,2003,18:38 | MetroBlab |
13,000 to be retired/separated in FY 04 from the Air Force. Apparently we are above the congressionally mandated number of personnel allowed on active duty.
Do more with less
and less
and less.
Be well,
lilamy
| Posted by hard69rock ® , Sep 09,2003,14:59 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by DBPrince ® , Sep 11,2003,15:56 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by fluffy ® , Sep 09,2003,21:33 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by spinetingler ® , Sep 09,2003,15:46 | MetroBlab |
Not really, but that wasn't in the realm of possibility.
Saddam wasn't going to be US president (unless maybe Jeb took a liking to him).
| Posted by Michael ® , Sep 09,2003,15:40 | MetroBlab |
They also know that priceless currency is being squandared.
And nobody "voluntarily left their lives." They are not martyrs. They are soldiers who have been commanded to their actions and ultimate deaths by an administration that who has shown nothing but careless disregard for them -- as your callous post reflects.
~m.
| Posted by Downtown Brown ® , Sep 09,2003,15:10 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by Scott ® , Sep 09,2003,15:04 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by hard69rock ® , Sep 09,2003,15:29 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by fluffy ® , Sep 09,2003,21:37 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by JOHN ALRICH, ESQ. ® , Sep 09,2003,19:44 | MetroBlab |
Just like their stupid uniforms during the Algeria War for Independence (1954-62); khakis and Keds are no substitute for body armor and Garands.
--modified at Tue, Sep 09, 2003, 19:44:40
| Posted by Jester_Fermaggio ® , Sep 09,2003,21:34 | MetroBlab |
YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
| Posted by JOHN ALRICH, ESQ. ® , Sep 09,2003,22:50 | MetroBlab |
| Posted by Jester_Fermaggio ® , Sep 09,2003,17:20 | MetroBlab |
Remember my name.
| Posted by Downtown Brown ® , Sep 09,2003,15:48 | MetroBlab |