Army expected to announce shortening of deployments
Aug 5, 2011, 4:32 AM | Updated: Oct 10, 2012, 7:28 am
Thousands of battle-tested soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord could be getting some great news from the Army Friday. Their overseas tours could be shortened.
NBC News reports the Army is expected to announce that it’s cutting tours from a year to nine months. The move coincides with plans to reduce troops in Afghanistan with the complete pullout of troops in Iraq later this year.
“Family is supposed first, because if you have a broken family, you have a broken soldier,” Starlet Baker, who has served two tours in Iraq, told KING 5. “Anything the military can do to try and fix that type of thing in my honest opinion the more the merrier.”
The Army is also expected to announce that time between tours will be lengthened.
