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To: tejek who wrote (213205)	12/15/2004 2:36:29 PM
From: TimF	of 1576835

Is there a draft in the wind? No. The volunteer military operates under what it calls a 3-1 rotation schedule, which requires two stateside units for every one deployed overseas so that troops can be rotated in and out of harm's way. They would change that policy before a draft would be instituted. That means the armed services need three times as many troops as are actually deployed -- 540,000 in the case of Iraq and Kuwait. More than 1.4 million men and women are on active duty, but just 499,543 of them are in the Army, which is handling the bulk of the fighting in Iraq. So 500k in the army + maybe another 180,000 or so marines. That's about 680k. 1/3rd of 680k is 260k. Higher then the number of people we have deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and the surrounding countries. Also there are some navy and airforce personel deployed in those areas. Tim

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