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Originally posted by Spanky
That is how many we had in the Guld War isn't it? And why rotate them out? We didn't rotate troops out of WWII? We did in vietnam and there shouldn't didn't work out well.
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Troops always get rotated in some way, shape or form. In WWII, where we didn't have the luxury of rotating them home, they got rotated between front and back lines. Fresh troops win battles.
It is possible to rotate troops in the Middle East by moving them to places like Italy or Qatar for two to three month stints between year long deployments. That's how you activate a greater percentage of your troops. However, moving to that system is likely to affect recruitment, and that's why the 1 yr/1 yr approach has been used.
