The "time out" card sounds like a pretty strange deal ... I could have used one for about three years of my ten years in
, and I suspect there are two dozen people who think of me when they hear about them.
The military personnel who are over there were bitching when they started packing, will be bitching the entire time they are there, and will be bitching for years after they get back.
Yes ... they are doing what they signed up to do. There are people who are very quickly coming up on their year over there. I can tell you that changing your date to return home can really fuck with your head and your morale. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in a position where the powers that be seem as clueless as they have in this instance.