Another gesture that China may consider in the coming year is the freezing or even reduction of its missile deployments on the coast facing Taiwan.
Social scientists are just beginning to document the rippling effects of multiple combat deployments on families — effects that those families themselves have intimately understood for years.
The judge found that the military has routinely delayed investigations and discharges until suspected homosexuals completed their deployments on combat missions.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has intensified its investigation into unwarranted air-bag deployments on nearly 387,000 Jeep Liberty S.U.V.'s from the 2002-3 model years.
The construction of a Soryu-class submarise is also planned to bolster island defence and surveillance, and the budget includes the cost of planned new troop deployments on two southern islands, Amami Oshima and Miyako.
But for all its efforts to show goodwill, it has made no attempt to scale down its military deployments on the coast facing the island, where its missile build-up continues.
He has served on two overseas deployments on the guided-missile class frigate Curts: in the Arabian Gulf in 2008 and in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in 2010.
