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#1 All Army Iraq Deployments now 15 months.

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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€
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Fucking great.

My son just shipped to Iraq with the 2nd CR. He was worried this was going to happen.
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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.
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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.
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Best of luck to him.
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The same from me to Petro. Hopfully this will make things more stable.
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Thanks guys. I haven't talked about it because it's, y'know, private, but thanks.
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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.
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