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01/24/08 2:31 PM

#40592 RE: teapeebubbles #40591

The Army is currently considering a “proposal to cut soldiers’ battlefield tours from 15 months to 12 months beginning in August, an effort to reduce the stress on a force battered by more than six years at war. … Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the move to 15-month deployments about a year ago, as the Pentagon struggled to fight wars on two fronts.”