Greg Page Misses the Lottery

The Army is cutting back to nine (9) month tours for Afghanistan (and elsewhere).  It was announced by DoD today.

Sadly for CPT Greg Page, Massachusetts Army National Guard, and others in the Mass National Guard deployed to Afghanistan at this time it doesn't become effective until 1 January 2012.  And, "The deployment period for high demand and low density units and individual deployers will remain one year."  The term "high demand and low density" refers to those units that are always needed but which DoD has not organized, trained and equipped in sufficient numbers.  Often it is about the cost of the unit's equipment.  In the Air Force it would be AWACS, J-STARS and U-2, plus a few others that sometimes are deployed not as units, but as detachments or even individual aircraft, with appropriate support.

But, Greg is reaching ever close to the halfway point, while focused on the job, as he notes here.  No, that isn't Greg in the blue.  Greg is the one on the right.

Regards  —  Cliff