Army Tries Incentives to Keep Officers

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The Army will offer incentives to keep midlevel officers as it faces another decade or so in combat around the world, its chief of staff said Friday.

Gen. George Casey, who took over as the Army's chief just a month ago, said the United States will "be in a period of conflict for, I believe, another five or ten years." And the Army, which has been stretched and stressed by five difficult years at war, must be organized and equipped to deal with that challenge, he said.

The general said he is not suggesting that the Iraq or Afghanistan wars will last five more years. But Casey, who was the top commander in Iraq until February, acknowledged that building a stable, self-governing Iraq is a "long-term proposition."

"We have been attacked and are at war with an insidious group of transnational terrorists who are attacking our way of life, and are going to continue to attack our way of life until we beat them, because I don't see them giving up," he said.

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[Cabcere]

1. I read this as "Army Tries *Invectives* to Keep Officers" at first

:) "Stay in the %&$#ing Army, you $#%*ing pile of #@%&ing #@*$!" :shrug: :crazy:

[rasputin1952]

2. They better work on NCO's first...Co & Bn officers are

necessary, but nothing gets done w/o an excellent NCO base...:D

[Screwfly]

3. WTF

the army has mid-level officers--since when? You won't know the military had any officers below the rank of general to judge by scandals like Abu Ghraib prison, Walter Reed Medical Center housing, and host of other places where military units left to their own devices turned into something like an evil version of McHales Navy.