Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions
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US troops inspect the site where they have detonated an abandoned car packed with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 6, 2004.
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Eight soldiers say they have been prevented from leaving Iraq even though the terms of enlistment they signed up for have run out.
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Officials are considering seeking a change in Pentagon policy that would allow for longer and more frequent call-ups of some reservists.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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A PRESSURE group fighting recruitment of child soldiers today called for Australia&#39;s armed forces to stop signing on children under 18.
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Eight US soldiers are suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other Army officials over an Army policy barring them from leaving Iraq even though they have served their terms of enlistment.
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Eight soldiers filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the army&#39;s policy requiring them to serve longer than the terms of their enlistment contracts.
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Eight US soldiers serving in Iraq and Kuwait filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the US military&#39;s &quot;stop loss&quot; policy, which forces them to serve beyond their enlistment contracts.
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The troops, who are doing humanitarian work, were due to leave by 14 December. But the deadline may be extended, according to a government spokesman.
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A decorated U.S. combat veteran  filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asserting that the government can  not prevent reservists from leaving the military when their  enlistment periods end.
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Eight US soldiers serving in Iraq launched a legal challenge yesterday to stop their tours of duty from being extended. The lawsuit is the first of its kind by a group of American soldiers on active service in the country.
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The US army is considering shortening tours of duty for its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq as a way of persuading them to re-enlist, it was reported yesterday.
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Holding troops in place for 120 days is another indication of the strains the drawn-out wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put on the Army.
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Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve...
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Officials said the Army's ability to recruit and retain soldiers will steadily erode unless combat tours are shortened.
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Bertie Ahern was challenged in the Dil this week by Sinn Fin's Caoimhghn Caolin about the fact that there are more British soldiers in the Six Counties than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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WASHINGTON, DC - Eight American soldiers have filed a lawsuit to win their release from the United States military, saying they are being kept on duty longer than their terms of enlistment specified.