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...burnout. But that year includes a rigorous schedule of month-long stints at the National Training Centers and live-fire field exercises that can last days at a time. Even if soldiers are back in the U.S. for a year, little more than half of that time is spent with family, and the next deployment always looms large. "We go home and immediately start preparing for the next deployment," says Polk. He and his wife have been thinking about having children, but the relentless deployments give him pause. "Even if we get pregnant in one week, that means...
...dress-code case will cost the district at least $50,000 in expenses if it goes to trial, and perhaps "hundreds of thousands" if it's appealed. That's a small piece of the district's $118 million budget, but it "bothers me when that money could be better spent educating students," she says...
Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion...
...mention what may be her most important qualification for the job, a knowledge of national-security issues unmatched in the Democratic field. Yes, several other Dems--Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson--can match her on foreign policy, but Clinton's years on the Armed Services Committee have been well spent. I once asked a well-known general if there were any Democrats running for President who understood the way military leaders think, and he said, "You mean, aside from Hillary...
...Normally you travel abroad a lot for a first time when you're a university student. I spent my summers in hospital because I had a series of eye operations from an injury playing rugby, so a lot of my original plans for foreign travel were frustrated...