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Army Could Curtail Some Overseas Missions To Patch Readiness Holes

Army Could Curtail Some Overseas Missions To Patch Readiness Holes
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters carrying distinguished visitors arrive for Army Day 2018, Feb. 9, 2018, Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait. Army Day was the opening event for U.S. Central Command’s Component Commanders Conference that allowed U.S. Army Central to showcase the Army’s capabilities at the theater level. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Ty McNeeley, U.S. ARCENT PAO)

To fulfill all of the Army’s global responsibilities, soldiers typically spend as much time deployed as they do at home between missions, inspiring service leaders to see which missions might be scrapped to give troops more down time and ultimately beef up readiness for when they do ship out.“We are deploying at a higher rate now than we were, maybe, four or five years ago, at least at the peak of Afghanistan and Iraq in some ways,” Army Secretary Mark…

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