Vets,Active Duty,et al-I am looking for info on deployment/dwell time

[w8liftinglady]

do you have any good resources?I hear a lot of talk about extending dwell time,but no action-that I can find.Thanks in advance...

[w8liftinglady]

1. one article I found...help me get through the BS to interpret what's happening

http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/06/army_deployments_062110w/
9-month deployments, 3 years of dwell favored

By Jim Tice - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Jun 23, 2010 17:11:22 EDT

The Army wants to reduce combat zone deployments to nine months and increase dwell time to three years, Gen. George Casey, Army chief of staff, told Army Times.

“We’re actively studying right now the timing and the possibilities of going to nine-month deployments as a standard,” Casey said in an exclusive interview June 7.

The Army started the war in Afghanistan with 12-month deployments and continued into Iraq with 12-month deployments. But in early 2007, the Army extended deployments to 15 months when it sent an additional 20,000 troops there. In August 2008, about 17 months later, deployments were shortened again to 12 months.
-More at site-

[w8liftinglady]

2. some of the Army deployment schedule

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/boots.htm