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On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
These 15-month deployments are going to wreck the Army.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Citing a conversation about the negative impact of long deployments.

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Jan 23, 2007

I personally cannot see any element of a strategy of a commitment that's been going on for more than 4 years that can justify doing this to the soldiers and the Army.

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Jan 23, 2007

It's a really serious issue, in terms of what we are trying to do.

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Jan 23, 2007

the question has been, how we recuperate, as a Nation, for what many of us believe was an enormous strategic blunder.

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Jan 23, 2007

the issue of regional instability, what you've alluded to a number of times in your testimony, is the key.

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