Wednesday, April 11, 2007
$3,000 per target
That is the extra pay that the "Million Dollar Baby", Our Dear Embattled Leader and his crew will provide Regular Army troops for the 3 extra months that are now required for a tour of duty in Iraq.
It was the latest move by the Pentagon to cope with the strains of fighting two wars simultaneously and maintaining a higher troop level in Iraq as part of President Bush's revised strategy for stabilizing Baghdad.An interim step. Will that become the new "another 6 months"? But this only affects regulars, Jarheads, NG and Reserve will continue to serve their standard tours. That should be just the ticket to boost morale, all the way down the cellar stairs.
"This policy is a difficult but necessary interim step," Gates told a Pentagon news conference, adding that the goal is to eventually return to 12 months as the standard length of tour in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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