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...nation's top military officer told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that the U.S. military isn't planning on sending additional troops to Iraq to deal with the recent surge in violence. While Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, didn't say as much, the reality is that there aren't any more U.S. troops to send to Iraq, or anywhere else. Partly to ensure that an overstretched military doesn't break, Mullen pleased troops in North Carolina on Monday when he told them that the Pentagon soon may begin replacing its Cold...
...soldiers and Marines churning through repeated combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, re-enlistment bonuses and lower recruitment standards can only do so much to maintain force levels. So, the military is doing more to make its postings and benefits more attractive for spouses and children in military families. Mullen's comments on South Korean tours echoed recent testimony from the top U.S. officer there. The change would cut the number of family separations beyond those already compelled by the two wars, Army General Burwell Bell told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 11. "In 55 years, the Republic...
...months before being deployed abroad for 12. Getting that 15-months-away, 12-months-at-home ratio down to 12-and-12 is currently the military's most urgent management challenge, Pentagon officials say. "My goal is to come down from 15 months as quickly as we can," Mullen told his North Carolina audience on Monday. That was the good news. But he quickly followed up with bad news: "When that will be, I don't know." So long as the op-tempo is so high, all the Pentagon's family fixes can't make up for that lack...
...Jazeera, Fallon said a "constant drumbeat of conflict" out of Washington about war with Iran was "not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for." Yet, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also maintained that the current confrontation with Iran should be resolved diplomatically. But Fallon, when he got outside of Washington, let his independent streak - a tradition among naval officers - say things to TV cameras and reporters that back in the capital he would...
...Intentional foul called on Unger after a hard foul on Cornell's Wilkins. He makes 1 of 2 free throws, but Big Red's Conor Mullen scores on the putback. Cornell 80, Harvard...