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[male speaker] The Secretary of the Army John McHugh
discussed deployment issues with Family Readiness Group leaders
and had lunch with spouses of deployed soldiers in Vicenza, Italy,
home of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
[McHugh] The chief and I watch this very carefully, and we feel as long as the current trends
continue-- and we expect they will--
even with the plus-up of forces in Afghanistan, by the end of calendar year 2011 for 70 percent
of the active force we hope to have a dwell of 2 to 1 beginning
in 2012, measuring toward it, and 3 to 1 for the reserve component.
Robert Sekula, Vicenza, Italy.