Troops deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan after August 1 will have their tour of duty reduced from 15 months to 12 months.
Biden will soon have a personal connection to the war in Iraq. His eldest son, Beau, a captain in the Delaware National Guard, is scheduled to leave for a tour of duty in Iraq in October.
In 1968, he received orders for his second tour of duty to Vietnam.
As a junior naval officer, while on a short tour of duty at sea, he'd got hooked on the Dr Kay Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell.
The soldiers all used to do a six-month tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
We see those same qualities today, particularly in our young men and women in uniform who have served tour after tour of duty to defend our nation in harm’s way, and their civilian counterparts.
Are you ready to enlist for another tour of duty here on Earth?
Relatives and friends of Telford said the 37-year-old, a long-serving guardsman in the Grenadiers, had flown out to Afghanistan last month for a tour of duty with the Royal Military police.
When details of Prince Harry's tour of duty were disclosed in the media, it became clear that his time at a forward base in volatile Helmand Province was drawing to a close.
Clemens class: The most important part of Roger Clemens' Minor League tour of duty has been his pitching, and he performed with aplomb for Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre on Monday, hurling six shutout, two-hit innings while striking out six and walking two.
A young man I had crush on returned home from a long overseas tour of duty in the Army.
That is our sacred trust with all who serve -and it doesn't end when their tour of duty does.
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