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Gear shortage to haunt U.S. military years after Iraq war

News – The U.S. military is so short of equipment that it will take years after the war in Iraq ends to bring it up to normal levels, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Peter Pace acknowledged. "It will take end of war plus two years to work off the backlog," said one of Pace's latest testimony to the Congress which was quoted by Friday's online edi

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