Here's one not looking so good... Vomiting Pumpkin A bit of fun with food colouring, vinegar, baking soda and washing up liquid :) Sent via Guardian Witness By ID709131 30 October 2013, 19 21 3.00pm GMT Soldiers from 9 Theatre Logistic Regiment march through Malmesbury, Wiltshire for an operational medals parade to mark their return to the UK after a 6 month deployment to Iraq.
I just recently returned from a 9 month deployment.
And given the timeline one could easily surmise that the only real reason for an 18 month deployment with vague goals and shadowy enemies was to spend money.
Joy Goulette was just trying to be a good neighbor when her friend Colleen Cekovsky's husband, Chris, who serves in the National Guard, left for a six month deployment to Afghanistan.
As a former platoon leader in the Third Brigade of the storied First Cavalry Division, I consider all those we lost over our 15 month deployment to Iraq: the 110 killed, and the 400 injured -- a number that includes me.
The spokesperson did add that Canadian soldiers will remain in Iraq passed their current six month deployment if asked to do so: "(t)he CAF is prepared to meet the government's request should it decide to commit Canadian troops for a longer period".
Few of today's soldiers expected 15-month deployments separated by home stays of less than 12 months.
As a Muslim who served in the US Navy, I understand how it feels to be separated from persons of my faith, as I was at sea during six-month deployments.
General Casey has used his new position, as Army chief of staff, to make clear his concerns that the elevated troop levels in Iraq are imposing too large a strain on the Army and his desire to do away with the current 15-month deployments in Iraq.
She finds special need, for example, in the fact that military children, like her own 11-year-old daughter, Diana, see parents regularly disappear in six-month deployments, but always return -- an impossible expectation now troubling some of the Pentagon families.
