During a November 2008 visit to the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, Army Chief of Staff GEN George W. Casey Jr. provided his perspective on the Army's frequent deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He said:
The Army is out of balance. We're deploying at a rate that we can't sustain . . . The only way to getting back in balance is increasing dwell time - the time a soldier spends back at home ... It's not just so they can spend more time with families, it's so they can recover themselves, and it's also [so] they can begin training to do other things ... If the Army continues at the pace it is deploying, while simultaneously increasing overall troop strength, then the dwell …
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