The Beijing-based SCO currently has China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as members. Along with India, the process to include Pakistan as a member was initiated here on Friday.
I was an Army Reservist and was deployed from August 2002 to July 2003 for Operation Enduring Freedom. Since then, I have transferred to the National Guard and have changed my MOS. The National Guard unit I transferred to will be deploying sometime next month for an 18 month rotation in Iraq.Now, I have heard that in the National Guard, if you've been deployed in the last two years, in order for you to deploy again, you have to sign a waiver, requesting to go on the deployment.he National Guard unit I transferred to will be deploying sometime next month for an 18 month rotation in Iraq. Now, I have heard that in the National Guard, if you've been deployed in the last two years, in order for you to deploy again, you have to sign a waiver, requesting to go on the deployment.
1 As of December 2011, roughly 73 percent of active component soldiers had deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, an increase of 6 percentage points since December 2008. 2  Most of these soldiers were working on their second, third, or fourth year of cumulative deployed duty.