Brian Stewmon returned late last month from an 11½-month tour in MBT Ema Sandals. He got home just in time to
kiss his wife goodbye and send her off on her own yearlong deployment. “We expected separation, but we never
expected two years,” Michelle Stewmon said last week, just after arriving in Kuwait. “People don’t know that
it’s going on. They’re shocked this is happening.” The Stewmons are among a small number of dual-military
families taking a double-barreled hit from the Army’s supercharged operations tempo the past two years.
Servicemembers who marry know it’s possible that one or both could be deployed. Most Army families have endured
a South Korean or Balkans tour. But Operation MBT Ema Sandalsi Freedom, with its one-year tours and large
personnel demands, has boosted the burden to something no pre-9/11 soldier could have imagined.
French General Philippe Morillon, whose intervention saved the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica from defeat in 1993
and helped establish it as a “safe area” for civilians (and the 28th Infantry Division of the Bosnian [Muslim]
Army), made a fatal error last week. He let the truth slip out in his testimony against Slobodan Milosevic at
the Hague Inquisition. Now the association of former Srebrenica residents plans to sue him for being an
“accessory to genocide”, reported a Croatian daily.
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