Army officials said they were making changes to the unpopular stop-loss policy, which can keep a soldier in service past his or her commitment if the soldier’s unit is due to deploy within 90 days.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the Army would do away with stop-loss in all but extreme cases.
Currently, the army has 13,000 soldiers under stop-loss orders. The plan is to cut the number of stop-loss troops in half by June 2010 and eliminate its use across the entire Army by March 2011.
It’s an announcement retired Army Chaplain Ben McCoy was happy to hear. He said stop-loss puts a tremendous strain on soldiers and their loved ones.
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