Major General Rick Lynch

Update on my fav Army guy..........

Ft. Stewart general: Troops will be ready to return to war by November.

SAVANNAH, Ga. The new commander of the Army's Third Infantry Division said
today that a brigade of more than four-thousand Fort Stewart troops will be
trained and ready to return to Iraq by late November.Major General Rick Lynch
said the First Brigade Combat Team, which has already served two tours in Iraq,
has not received deployment orders. The Pentagon placed the brigade on standby
last week as it added about 21-thousand Army soldiers and Marines to its
2006-2008 rotation schedule for Iraq.
Lynch declined to predict the odds of
his soldiers departing for their third tour later this year, but he echoed
concerns voiced by senior commanders that Iraq could plunge into civil war.
Lynch told reporters at Hunter Army Airfied in Savannah -- quote -- "The
things we're most concerned about are increases in sectarian violence and the
fact that potentially Iraq could be on the verge of civil war."
He also said
Americans growing weary of after three years of war should know upfront it's
unlikely to end soon.
Lynch said -- quote -- "People should have a realistic
assessment that it's not going to be fixed in Iraq overnight. And there is an
expectation it could last as long as nine years, from a historical perspective."
The 19-thousand soldiers of the Third Infantry helped lead the charge to
Baghdad during the U-S-led invasion in March 2003. They returned for a second
tour in 2005, a yearlong deployment that ended in January