US Troop Rotation in Iraq, Good or Bad? - GoFuckYourself.com

Digipimp · 02-23-2004, 02:16 AM

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Rumsfeld arrives in Baghdad Monday. He will be present for largest US troop rotation in history when 130,000 soldiers in Iraq go home to be replaced with 110,000 fresh troops for about a year. Both groups will pass through Kuwait

So with a big replacement like this is that a good thing or a bad thing. Don't you think the troops over there have adjusted fairly well and are getting better at understanding the people and the tactics and now you do a near total replacement with new troops. Could this be a bad thing possibly?

AMN · 02-23-2004, 02:21 AM

I would think there will be some soldiers that will be making newbie mistakes since they are losing alot of the guys who have been there for awile to learn from.

Digipimp · 02-23-2004, 02:22 AM

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Originally posted by AMN
I would think there will be some soldiers that will be making newbie mistakes since they are losing alot of the guys who have been there for awile to learn from.

That's what I was wondering, I mean it's the largest rotation ever and as I understand it a lot of the new guys are reserve and national guard guys. I would think pulling nearly everyone out and putting in all new guys could be ugly. I would be pissed, if I was going over there and thinking nearly all the experience was leaving as I got there.

02-23-2004, 02:21 AM	#2
AMN Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Las vegas, NV Posts: 97	I would think there will be some soldiers that will be making newbie mistakes since they are losing alot of the guys who have been there for awile to learn from.