New Joint Chiefs chairman gets blunt questions from Army captains about strain of Iraq service

October 23, 2007

New Joint Chiefs chairman gets blunt questions from Army captains about strain of Iraq service

FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) Army captains who represent the military's future pelted the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with blunt questions Tuesday about the strain of long war deployments.

At times technical and other times very personal, the officers reflected the worries of a military struggling to fight two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without exhausting troops, alienating their families or driving soldiers away.