Few answers for 1AD spouses

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Spouses of soldiers from units in the 1st Armored Division already suspected what was up. They were going to be told that their husbands, and in some cases wives, were going to be kept in Iraq for up to four more months, even though their supposedly one-year tours were finished.

“Some people were angry and didn’t shed a tear,” said Lisa Box, a Family Readiness Group leader with Baumholder’s 222nd Base Support Battalion. “Others just totally broke apart.

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The wife, a 1st Armored Division spouse in Wiesbaden who did not want to be identified because she was afraid of possible repercussions to her husband, said the extension has been difficult for her children, ages 2 and 10.

“Well, to put it this way, our son asked a soldier who works at the post office if he was his daddy,” the woman said.



http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=21625


Note that this article says that 1AD soldiers who had already redeployed home were told they'd be going back to Iraq. Yet during the Rumsfeld/Pace press conference, General Pace gave a brief but emphatic "No" to the question of whether those 1AD troops who'd recently arrived home would be returning to Iraq. It looks like it's a "luck of the draw" system: If you were fortunate to get out on the first plane, you're home free. The rest have to suck it up.