"This nation as a whole is not going to spend the money to bring every guard division, every reserve unit and every active-duty division up to the pinnacle of readiness 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," said P. T. Henry, the Army's assistant secretary for reserve affairs.
The Army is organized into ten active-duty divisions — six heavy divisions and four light divisions.
The extended deployment of Army divisions in Iraq and the heavy use of the reserves strongly suggest the need for two additional active-duty divisions.
General Hagenbeck said that all 10 of the Army's active-duty divisions had met their re-enlistment goals, but it is coming at a steep price.
Under its current plan, the Army is aiming to deploy its active-duty divisions overseas for a year, and then bring them home for two years to retrain and re-equip them.
A lawyer for Ms. Lebowitz, Peter S. Spivack, said she split her time evenly between Congressional and campaign duties, a division of labor "accurately reflected in terms of her pay arrangement".
Two other active-duty Army divisions that have already served one-year tours in Iraq -- the 101st Airborne and the Fourth Infantry -- have been selected to return in the coming rotation this summer, less than two years after having last served in Iraq.
With 9 of 10 active-duty Army divisions committed to the Iraq mission, Mr. Kerry said the so-called stop-loss policy, along with other stresses like the long-term deployment of Reserve and Guard troops, put the nation "in danger of creating another hollow Army".
The Duty Free Shops division returned to "slight" profitability in 2003, the LVMH news release said, as tourism rebounded worldwide.
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