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Short Answer: 12 to 15 Months Army with some units serving as few as eight and other units as long as 18 months , 6 Months Marines.
Being an all volunteer force the Army wasn't under Congressional pressure to return conscripted citizens home by guaranteed deadlines as was the case during the Vietnam and Korean Wars, because of this political reality units served "the needs of the Army" and were told usually the minimum amount of time they would spend in theater, not a guaranteed maximum. Tours could be, and were often extended. It was this extension of tour length that made the "Surge" of 2006 possible. The bulk of the "Surge" came from units already in Iraq being told they would not go home on schedule, not from fresh units arriving in theater. The wave of resentment that followed the extensions during the Summer of 2006 among the rank and file coupled with the use of "Stop Loss" was the precursor to the Secretary of the Army, Robert Gates, suggesting that the US Army would stick closer to tour lengths of 12 months. This proposal, however, was never codified, was not part of Congressional Law, or Executive Order, merely a strong recommendation.
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