CSA: More Dwell Time for Soldiers

[unhappycamper]

CSA: More Dwell Time for Soldiers
August 27, 2008
Army News Service|by Robert Abrams

FORT IRWIN, Calif. - Dwell time for Soldiers between deployments is expected to increase to 17 months next year, and almost to 24 months by 2011, said Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. He said this will allow the National Training Center to once again focus on "conventional operations" and not just counter-insurgency training.

Gen. Casey made his remarks during an interview outside the town of Medina Jabal in the National Training Center's range area, "the box," during a visit to NTC Aug. 14.

Gen. Casey said that one of the main things he did during his visit was to speak with Brig. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard, commanding general, National Training Center and Fort Irwin, about adjusting NTC training scenarios.

This adjustment, Casey said, would involve including "major conventional operations training" as well as "irregular warfare training" at NTC over the next couple of years, as Soldiers spend more time at home and not deployed.

"And we're already starting the planning to reset the scenarios and the OPFOR (opposing force), so that we can do that," Casey said.


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[hedgehog]

1. In engineering terms, "dwell time" refers to the time that a cam

is not causing any activity. I'm trying to come up with a metaphor here that the soldiers are all being treated as some part of a machine that never stops running.