Army needs three to four years to recover from Iraq strains: chief - Yahoo! News

General Casey is claiming that the service is not broken, but that it will take 3-4 years for it to recover from Iraq.

Well duh!!!

It's actually going to take longer. When you consider the amount that the army has had to drop it's standards for recruits, the people held in by stop loss orders and inactive ready reserve (aka backdoor draft), and the people who are staying only because they don't want to leave their buddies while the fight is still going on, it's going to be a lot longer.