Reply #3: The 1AD was supposed to have returned home last month

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The division was extended beyond the 365 days stated on their orders. The "gotcha!" is as follows: "or until the mission has been accomplished." The mission will never be accomplished.

Below is the 1AD public affairs spokesperson's response last week when eight 1AD were killed on Thursday.

“I think it does a disservice to the soldiers and more importantly their families to infer that this would not have happened had the deployment not been extended,” Gercken said. “Their sacrifice and the work they were accomplishing is too important to be covered up by speculation on what might have happened.”

Memo to Maj. Gercken: Had these soldiers been returned home as promised, they would, in fact, be alive today.