Deployments you say?

Army Times reports today online the following: In the eight years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, American troops have deployed almost 3.3 million times to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Defense Department data. The numbers, as of October 2009, show that more than 2 million men and women have shouldered those deployments, with 793,000 of them deploying more than once. Specifically for the Army, more than 1 million Soldiers have deployed since the beginning of the wars. These 1 million Soldiers have completed 1.5 million deployment events, with 352,700 deploying more than once. In October, 172,800 soldiers were deployed to the war zones.