How many of the over 2 million in the military are affected by 'stop loss'?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0131/dailyUpdate.html

Stop-loss used to retain 50,000 US troops

Also, Iraqi officials say total number of foreign troops in Iraq will fall below 100,000 by end of year.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

"Stop-loss," a policy used by the Army to keep US soldiers and reservists in the military beyond the date when their service was supposed to end, has been used on more than 50,000 members of the armed forces since the war in Iraq began. Currently stop-loss is being used to extend the duty of 12,500 troops. Reuters reports that the measure applies to units about to deploy to Afghanistan or Iraq.



This is a few months old but it looks like in January there were 12,500 troops affected by 'stop loss' out of over 2 million. Is that right? Does anyone know?

Don

[MadMaddie]

1. Don....I would like to know the number also...

but you know what in the end it's too many...these soldiers paid their dues....and are getting destroyed by this.....