Military Families React to Announcement About Troop Levels (in Iraq 2010)

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Military Families React to Announcement About Troop Levels

The U.S. Army plans to keep the current number of troops in Iraq until 2010, and that's not sitting well with Congressman Jimmy Duncan.

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Congressman Jimmy Duncan says he's not only concerned about the cost of the war efforts, but the price many military families are being asked to pay with their loves ones on the front lines. This comes with the possibility that one local family could hear word of another deployment. Army Sergeant First Class Mike Testerman has been home from the Middle East for nearly a year now, but he and his family know his time at home could be short lived.

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He says he's not completely surprised the Army has plans to keep the current number of troops in Iraq.

"It was expected when it first started that we were going to be there at least 10 years, that we'd have troops in the Iraq region for at least 10 years," Testerman said.

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"If we keep our troop levels at the same 150,000 level that they're talking about for the next four years, you're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars more that we can't afford because we're already 8 and a half trillion dollars in debt," Duncan said.