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To: rrufff who wrote (6084)	4/9/2004 12:30:48 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 90947

Man just got banned from the foreign affairs thread and I was gonna post this. Re-up The Army's 4th Infantry Division spent over a year in Iraq fighting insurgents in the Tikrit section of the notorious Sunni Triangle. The Pentagon was closely watching the division's retention rates to see if months away from home and hazardous duty would prompt more soldiers to vote with their feet. But the early numbers are encouraging. The 4th ID, now mostly back home at Fort Hood, Texas, reports that it exceeded all retention goals in the quarter that ended March 31. In the categories of first-termers, mid-career and career soldiers, the division exceeded its re-enlistment targets by between 153 percent and 170 percent. The division also surpassed its goals for fiscal 2003, which ended Sept. 30