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Lookout, the first part of your reply is the best answer I've heard yet. I have been honestly puzzled by the lockdown thing every since Lisa told me about it, since it is completely foreign to what I experienced with my Dad growing up as an Army brat, lo those many years ago.
Lisa is very vehement about it being done to prevent troops from wriggling out of going over at the last minute. In reading the discussions over at Army Times and considering what you have said, my feeling at this point is that lockdown probably was set up to serve a variety of purposes. It keeps troop movements at least somewhat under wraps and may also serve to keep down pre-deployment attrition in the ranks. How serious a problem this attrition actually is remains an open question in my mind at this point. There seems to be no definitive answer, either way.
Never having served in the military, much less gone into a combat situation, I don't have the faintest idea about the second part of your response. You've been there, so I'll take your word on it.
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