Press release: “A new report from the Center for American Progress analyzes the deployment and use of each of the 16 Enhanced Brigades of the Army National Guard. The heavy reliance by the military on the brigades of the Guard and Reserve is unprecedented and has placed a tremendous strain on these brigades and their soldiers. Since 2001, every Enhanced Brigade has been deployed overseas at least once and two have already been deployed twice. To keep up with the administration’s current escalation strategy, the Pentagon has rewritten rules that previously limited deployment of Guard and Reserve troops to 24 months out of every five years…The report also calls for an increase in the size of the active forces by 100,000 and legislation that limits Guard and Reserve troop deployment to no more than one year out of five. Finally, a proposed volunteer homeland security corps would serve as a backstop to the lack of National Guard and Reserve troops that continue to be deployed on extended overseas tours.”