What is going to happen to the unemployment rate when all these troops come home??
The Air Force has already begun the RIF actions. He seems to believe that they will all be grateful that there are no more deployments. They might be unemployed, but they should be grateful. <\s>
The group that will really be grateful about this are the muslim terrorists. They can regain the country as a staging area for new attacks. It has always been a mistake to view Afghanistan as being in any way a conventional war/conflict. It is and always has been an unconventional battlefield. The Russians learned this painful lesson and we had it right for a while, before the uptick in the number of troops deployed as opposed to keeping it primarily special operators.
FUBO & FAD
Good point - they will be tossed out on the street.
Between the ‘Stan and Iraq, how many troops is that? Iraq - 39K, the ‘Stan - under 100K - 90K?
Might bump up the unemployment level to 9.4% Hard to impact a number as large as the number of unemployed right now...