LiberalNation
06-20-2008, 09:21 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_on_re_us/army_balance;_ylt=AmxcYbuBH7kuF4CjEv22IcxvzwcF
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The Army's top officer said Friday it will take three to four years to put the Army back in balance after seven years of war.
"Right now, the Army is out of balance. We're stretched and stretched by the fact that we didn't have a big enough Army to do the things the nation is asking us to do since Sept. 11," said Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff. "Once you are off track it takes a long time to put it back together."
Casey became the 36th Chief of Staff of the Army last year. During his first appearance in front of Congress in September, he said the Army was stretched so thin by the war in Iraq that it cannot adequately respond to another conflict.
Many of the paratroopers Casey met Friday at Fort Bragg are on their second and third deployment to both Iraq and Afghanistan.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The Army's top officer said Friday it will take three to four years to put the Army back in balance after seven years of war.
"Right now, the Army is out of balance. We're stretched and stretched by the fact that we didn't have a big enough Army to do the things the nation is asking us to do since Sept. 11," said Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff. "Once you are off track it takes a long time to put it back together."
Casey became the 36th Chief of Staff of the Army last year. During his first appearance in front of Congress in September, he said the Army was stretched so thin by the war in Iraq that it cannot adequately respond to another conflict.
Many of the paratroopers Casey met Friday at Fort Bragg are on their second and third deployment to both Iraq and Afghanistan.