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  • April 2008
    • Combat Tours to Be Cut

      Combat Tours to Be Cut

      American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are to have their combat tours cut from 15 months to 12 beginning late this summer. The White House plans a formal announcement next week, an insider told the AP. Tours were lengthened last year to boost troop levels in Iraq, and the Army has warned that the "unsustainable" extended deployments are wearing down its soldiers. More »

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      Iraq   Afghanistan   US military   David Petraeus   US Army   troop withdrawal   Robert Gates   deployment   Gen. George Casey

  • February 2008
  • December 2007
    • Army Seeks to Shorten Tours

      Army Seeks to Shorten Tours

      With violence slowing in Iraq, many Army leaders want to drop the 15-month tours of duty imposed on soldiers earlier this year to sustain the surge, the AP reports. “We can’t sustain that,” says Army Chief of Staff George Casey, the former top commander in Iraq who is among generals seeking a return to 12 months by next summer. More »

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      US military   troop surge   tour of duty   Military   Gen. George Casey

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