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First, some history. Because Marines deploy aboard ships, the service's chiefs have always hungered for vertical lift - aircraft that could take off and land from small decks and fly far inland to drop off combat-ready troops. As the Marines' Vietnam-era CH-46 choppers became obsolete, commanders started to dream of an aircraft that would give them more options when considering an amphibious assault. The dreams intensified following the failed Desert One mission in 1980 to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. In the course of the operation, three helicopters broke down, leading to an order to abort...
...There’s no greater challenge than development in poor parts of the world, and there’s no private entity and few public entities that have the kind of resources to deploy that the Gates Foundation does,” Summers said. “I am honored to have been asked to help...
During several trips to Iraq, I've met a soldier who spent only seven months at home between year-long deployments, and several soldiers who worry that their young children are growing up without them. Constant deployments are especially difficult for families in which both the husband and the wife are soldiers. If both deploy, it's possible they could go years without living at home as a family...
...with that, the President came face to face with one of the few hard-and-fast realities in an uncertain war: extended tours are wearing the troops thin. Most Marines now deploy for seven months abroad and spend seven at home, instead of the traditional 14 months back. The Army too has dropped its customary 1-to-2 ratio and extended rotations to 15 months abroad and 12 at home...
Estimated number of recent deaths, according to an official government tally in Sudan, a widely contested figure. A 26,000-member U.N. and African Union peacekeeping force is expected to deploy to Darfur by the end of the year...