So if I offer a product for $20 and it sells real good then I up the price to $30 and it stops selling as good if I lower the price back to the original price of $20 does that mean the product is now on sale????? Nice fuzzy math they like to use but of course they are just following orders from the CiC, right???????
Of all escape mechanisms, Death is the most efficient. ~~ H.L. Mencken
Probably not, but I am sure someone will tell him about it, like when they told him abut the 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, AFTER everyone else knew about it for MONTHS...?
Originally posted by pltou812: Wanna hear a good one? Air National Guard does tours of three months!!! Now there isa deployment I want.
course the ANG should be guarding OUR country-not forigen. so i think we can let it go. and its 179 days...ya wouldnt actually want them to actually get any decent benifits from serving... Like I said above6- 8 months would be much better and easier on soliders.
" The U.S. Army is 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. "
The Army was under serious stress by 2005, the Iraq Study Group mentions it in late 2006. It's probably impossible to continue these 15 month tours.
So a few months ago when Senator Webb proposed his dwell-time amendment which specified that the military cannot be deployed for longer than a year, and must be given at least as much time at home as on deplyments, it was opposed by the Bush Administration as an infringement on military readiness, but now it's okay? A day late and a dollar short for a lot of military families.
Originally posted by pltou812: Wanna hear a good one? Air National Guard does tours of three months!!! Now there isa deployment I want.
Really??? Things must have changed since I was in the Air Guard (6 years). Plus...the mission of Air National Guard is different than the Army Guard or Reserve. I'm sure if there was anything of an air war to be fought, you'd see Air Guard members doing longer tours (that's how it was for me in Desert Storm). Since that's not the case...why have those forces in Iraq doing long tours. That's why you have active duty AF...to take care of any close air support mission as well as transport/supply missions to support Army ground troops. But I absolutely agree with everyone who say that Army and Marine ground units should be on a 12 or less deployment schedule (preferably 8 or 9 month). There's no sense burning out the troops...I sure that some have served 3 tours.
I am sure that the people this "EFFECTS" (me being one of those) are happy as hell that the tours are getting shortened. It wont help me get my wife home sooner on the tour she is on now, but, it might if she has to go back.
Originally posted by MarineAuntie: So a few months ago when Senator Webb proposed his dwell-time amendment which specified that the military cannot be deployed for longer than a year, and must be given at least as much time at home as on deplyments, it was opposed by the Bush Administration as an infringement on military readiness, but now it's okay? A day late and a dollar short for a lot of military families.
Better late than never though!!!
Only the most uninformed among us don't know that Sen. Webb first championed this idea, so the administration isn't fooling anybody anymore. It's also likely that Hutchinson's seat in the Senate is in danger or she wouldn't be getting this much attention on this sort of issue either.
But I don't care who gets the credit, as long as the stupidity in Washington ends and our returning Veterans are treated with the respect and THANKS that we owe them.
Over time, the shift to yearlong deployments would give soldiers more time at home - ranging from at least a year to as much as 15 months. Currently units are deploying for 15 months and getting about 12 months at home.
I love the "to as much as 15 months". This is so generous, I can barely speak because I am choking up with tears of joy.
As for who has shorter deployments and why, who cares? Sure, at times I wish my husband was in another service and his tours were shorter, but he isn't and they aren't. Lashing out at those who picked a different service doesn't bring him home any sooner, nor does it make me feel better. All I can hope for is a future where he won't miss half of his babies' life
Im a wife of a deployed soldier and we have 3 kids. 15 month deployments are outrageous because that separates the kids from their parent. I think that they should never of extended the war from the start. They are gone 15 months and get 18 days of R&R and thats stupid. Its like as soon as we get use to them they have to leave again. What do you think that does to a childs mind? How do you explain to young children whats going on and why their parent has to leave for so long? Kids act out after their parent being gone for so long so that makes it hard on the parent thats home. Noone knows what its like being a wife/husband of a deployed soldier more than the ones themselves. Maybe they should put themsleves in our shoes for one day and see what they think. Trust me its not easy.
Hmmm.... I guess the option of admitting the invasion of Iraq was a flawed decision based on flawed intelligence and questionable policy further exaccerbated by incompetent planning and post-invasion management so let's just redeploy American forces leaving maybe 30K troops in the region and letting the Iraqis sort out their problems on their own is out?
