Well, I wasn't impressed at the time; he's just as big a liar as Rumsfeld!!!!
"DOD data: More forced to stay in Army"
"The Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster its troop levels, despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates' order last year to limit it, Pentagon records show....
The reliance on stop loss has increased as the military has sent more troops to Iraq and extended tours to 15 months to support an escalation in U.S. forces ordered by President Bush. The increase last month was driven by the need to send more National Guard soldiers to Iraq....
The trend is alarming, said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who wrote a letter on April 17 to Gates urging him "in the strongest terms" to limit stop loss.
Last year, Shays and three other House members wrote Gates a similar letter saying they were concerned about using the policy to bolster forces for the so-called surge. It hurts morale, burdens troops' families, damages the credibility of military leaders and threatens recruiting, they wrote....
Shays said the nation needs a bigger Army. In the meantime, he urges the Pentagon to press more personnel from the Air Force and Navy into Army jobs...."
Yeah, that's the answer.
Notice how scaling back this insane PNAC, Neo-Con plan of world occupation and domination is never an option, readers?!
Yup, instead it is airmen and seamen to ground!!!!
But the surge worked and there will be no draft, either!!!!
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Recruiting and Retaining Terrorists
