Longer Iraq tours are good for ‘Army stress.’
By on Apr 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Longer Iraq tours are good for ‘Army stress.’
“Extended overseas deployments affecting soldiers serving in Afghanistan and other locales overseen by U.S. Central Command should help to alleviate the stress on the Army,” a senior U.S. official claimed. Noah Shachtman: “Yeah, yeah. Water is dry, ice is warm, and up is down, too.”
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Technically correct. You cannot be “stressed” when you are dead.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pm….also
Ignorance is strength
War is peace
and freedom is slavery
…just to cover all the bases.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:54 pmSpoken by a true lifer. The Col has to spend the next 10 years so shouldn’t everybody else spend that time with him?
April 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pmI’m sure the stress on the Army will be alleviated…
the stress on the soldiers, on the other hand…….
April 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pmIt’s the stress in numbers, not the stress of the individual soldier.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pmExtended overseas deployments affecting soldiers serving in Afghanistan and other locales overseen by U.S. Central Command should help to alleviate the stress on the Army
Oh yes, by all means. Reduce the stress on the Army…by increasing the stress on the soldiers.
What could possibly go wrong with this brilliant plan?
April 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pmAnd death is good for health insurance plans, too.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm“We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”
April 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pmCol. Schweitzer must have just returned from a hemp eradication detail when he gave this interview.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pmWhat did he just say? LONGER tours equals less stress? Is there a typo or editing gaffe in that quote, or am I missing something?
April 25th, 2007 at 2:00 pmDon’t want to hijack the thread, but I thought this might be important enough to mention:
Hopefully, TP will be dedicating a thread to this soon.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pmSchweitzer needs to quit drinking while on duty. His comment makes no sense at all, he has to be drunk.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:04 pmThe report is the macro look at the military and extending tours will lessen the stress on the rotations. The stress on the individual soldier will increase but this doesn’t seem to be a concern.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:06 pmDefeatocrats want terrorists to win
Defeatocrats don’t support the troops
Clinton did it
(end transmission)
April 25th, 2007 at 2:06 pmThe cowards in the Republican Party and more especially the Bush Crime Family don’t know the sacrifice these men and women give. They are all cowards from hell.
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
RNC = Chickenshit Chickenhawk Cowards
April 25th, 2007 at 2:10 pmMore stress on the soldiers = less stress on the military and it’s hacks who give speeches. Or, making it easier for the military to reach the troop numbers Bush insists on with an already decimated military.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:13 pmWell…you could say that stress on “the army” as a whole in a sense is reduced in that “the army” now “suffers” less as a whole because there are more troops.
Of course the comment ignores the fact that the army is only an entity in the sense that a corporation is an entity–but leave it to someone in this administration to make that mistake.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:16 pmStress of the Army recruiters, perhaps.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:18 pmann @ 18 no it doesn’t. The recruiters are being beaten down and longer deployments are only going to mean more people get out.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:30 pmLess stress for who?
Did they really say families can plan better?
Why don’t we just move all the families there to be with the soldiers?
Less stress all around!
April 25th, 2007 at 2:45 pm19. Don’t forget about the “Stop Loss” order keeping soldiers in longer than the contracted time. There will be a massive sucking sound after all of this. It will be the mass exodus of soldiers from our services because of how piss poor they have been treated.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:51 pmTHIS is what happens when you have DRAFT DODGING COWARDS in charge!!!
No wonder ALL of our BEST GENERALS have retired or have been reassigned…
April 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pm“Extended overseas deployments affecting soldiers serving in Afghanistan and other locales overseen by U.S. Central Command should help to alleviate the stress on the Army,â€
Yeah, it helps to alieviate the stress on the Army, but what about the stress on the people themselves. Oh, I forgot, the Republics love the troops, it’s the Democrats who hate the troops, even though the Democrats are the ones who want to bring them home.
I weep for what we have become. It’s time to fight back.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:10 pmThis ties in with a documentary I saw on tv a couple of weeks ago in which a soldier claimed that if they tell their superiors, while they’re still in Iraq, that they are struggling with stress symptoms then they are kept in Iraq.
Obviously, that creates a ‘Catch-22′ situation because if they tell their superiors that they DON’T suffer from stress, and then they ask for help dealing with post-traumatic stress when they get home then they are told, “Sorry – you said that you weren’t suffering from stress!” and they are denied treatment.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pmDraft the Twins and other children of the very wealthy class. The war will be over in 24 hours. No more extended duty for anyone in Iraq.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:05 pmRestart the draft with no exemptions except for mental weakness of some kind. If the mental weakness is a reason for draft exemption, then no driver’s license, college degrees, govt management jobs of any kind, no advisory positions to any government entity or contractor, etc. To play, you have to pay. Period. This will sort out these stupid lie-infested and lie-based wars.
Jeez…these people are shameless.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pmLike Rumsfeld’s claim that being in compat is good for “hardening the troops” what a load of Sh#t.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:30 pmlonger tours are good. yeah, right, and Agent Orange is good for you too.
April 25th, 2007 at 7:44 pm