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Pentagon Records Show Stop Loss Use on Rise

As the United States military sent more troops to Afghanistan and Iraq last year to counter stubborn insurgencies in both theaters, the Army began to rely more on its controversial "stop loss" policy to fill the need for soldiers. Under orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to minimize the use of stop loss, the Army reduced the number of soldiers so ordered to its lowest level in three years by May of 2007. But as the troop surge into Iraq picked up steam, and the Pentagon planned to send additional units to Afghanistan, the Army began to increase that number, driving it up 43% in the ...

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