Aaron Mehta, Military Times
WASHINGTON - New rules requiring members of the military to be able to deploy or get outwere put in place to ensure fairness in deployment rates, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.You're either deployable, or you need to find something else to do. I'm not going have some people deploying constantly and then other people, who seem to not pay that price, in the U.S. military, Mattis told reporters Feb. 17 in his first comments on the issue since the new policy was formally introduced.If you can't go overseas [and] carry a combat load, then obviously someone else has got to go. I want...
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WASHINGTON - New rules requiring members of the military to be able to deploy or get outwere put in place to ensure fairness in deployment rates, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.You're either deployable, or you need to find something else to do. I'm not going have some people deploying constantly and then other people, who seem to not pay that price, in the U.S. military, Mattis told reporters Feb. 17 in his first comments on the issue since the new policy was formally introduced.If you can't go overseas [and] carry a combat load, then obviously someone else has got to go. I want...
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