Puzzlements: Why have so few soldiers and Marines deployed?
As we enter the seventh year of the Iraq war (sorry, that name is already taken), I don’t understand why two-thirds of the active-duty Army and three-quarters of the active Marine Corps have just one or even zero deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan. Check out this chart from a Pentagon briefing: And just so you ...
As we enter the seventh year of the Iraq war (sorry, that name is already taken), I don't understand why two-thirds of the active-duty Army and three-quarters of the active Marine Corps have just one or even zero deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Check out this chart from a Pentagon briefing:
As we enter the seventh year of the Iraq war (sorry, that name is already taken), I don’t understand why two-thirds of the active-duty Army and three-quarters of the active Marine Corps have just one or even zero deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Check out this chart from a Pentagon briefing:
And just so you have it, here is the whole study from which that slide is taken.
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