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#1 All Army Iraq Deployments now 15 months.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:44 pm
by SirNitram
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[quote]WASHINGTON, April 11 — 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 stepâ€
#2
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:15 pm
by Josh
Fucking great.
My son just shipped to Iraq with the 2nd CR. He was worried this was going to happen.
#3
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:24 pm
by Cpl Kendall
Chances are his tour would have been extended anyways. They were doing it left and right before this. Now it's just official and across the board.
By the way I hope him and his friends make it back with all their parts intact.
#4
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:36 pm
by Josh
Cpl Kendall wrote:Chances are his tour would have been extended anyways. They were doing it left and right before this. Now it's just official and across the board.
By the way I hope him and his friends make it back with all their parts intact.
Thanks. His job is all about getting people back with all or most of their parts- battlefield ambulance.
#5
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:42 pm
by Cynical Cat
Best of luck to him.
#6
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:11 pm
by frigidmagi
The same from me to Petro. Hopfully this will make things more stable.
#7
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:43 pm
by Josh
Thanks guys. I haven't talked about it because it's, y'know, private, but thanks.
#8
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:06 pm
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Petrosjko wrote:Thanks. His job is all about getting people back with all or most of their parts- battlefield ambulance.
Good luck for your son. The extension does ask a lot of him (and you too), but I hope he'll be okay nonetheless.