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by sfc32 639 days ago
Hilarious. Are you of conscription age?

The personal commitment made by troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan was beyond WW2 levels https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

> The Army retains very little unutilized capacity to deploy additional active component soldiers without lengthening deployments or shortening the time between deployments, both of which increase the burden on those who have already deployed.