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The Pentagon is extending the tours of most active-duty Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to ensure that troops have a full year at home between tours.(Brief article)
The Pentagon is extending the tours of most active-duty Army units in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to ensure that troops have a full year at home between tours. It faced this choice because President Bush has not done more to rebuild the military after its Clinton-era downsizing. Consider a few numbers: From 1974 to 1989, the Army had 770,000 to 780,000 active troops (all of them volunteers). Today, we have around 508,000. The Navy had 568 ships in the late 1980s; today it has 276. The Air Force's number of tactical air wings has shrunk from 37 to 20, and the average ...
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