No more long deployments? How will the service handle longer garrison periods?

This will be a great period to reset the force and train for what we consider our wartime mission.  I am also looking forward to doing a revision of our strategic priorities and way ahead.  

Being in war doesn't mean we are great a fighting all types of conflicts, so we must be prepared and ready for conflicts in other parts of the world.  

Two words, sir: Yeah, right.

If there's one thing a service member can count on it's never being out of a job. There are too many hot spots out there to think that this reprieve will last long.

I hope so. But I know better.

It's a welcome announcement that our exhausted military force will have a "break" from long, recurring deployments. We absolutely need a chance to rest, refit, and reconstitute!

Field training and BS Inspections of equipment. Regulations will tighten up and fitness will be a major obligation. Promotions will slow down in general and get used to the motor pool. Post Vietnam, Cold War duty sucked! I hope this will not be the same.

hopefully with good order , discipline, and great training!

Long deployments are a good thing.

LTC (Join to see) I suppose one upside of this garrison period, if it does in fact happen, is that our military and their families will get a much-needed rest period from long and back-to-back deployment. Our forces went through long periods of being stretched and re-stretched.

Also, some people aren't going to like what I am about to say -- but during the recent decade of deployment after deployment and being stretched thin, I think many military units loosened their adherence to certain standards, whether that be training, discipline, or mission execution of any kind. I think this is something that happens naturally if it's not identified and prevented, and it's partly to do with the force being weary and also some leaders being promoted into leadership positions far too early.

So, another upside of the garrison environment would be an opportunity to get back to our roots in certain ways.

I don't really understand that statement of us moving past nation building. This is not a new thing that we just did in Iraq and Afghan. We did it Germany and Japan. After we won we played a pivotal role building both of those nations. When it comes to it again we will do it again. We still are sending troops to Iraq and are keeping more than we thought in Afghan. I don't think we will be making a huge effort like we have in the past but I don't see stop nation building.

That is no problem at all it has been done eve since the army was formed and done today and for the last 50 years. You train for your mission and maintain your equipment.