{"id":20067,"date":"2018-02-17T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/17\/mattis-deploy-or-get-out-rule-is-about-fairness\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:06:52","slug":"mattis-deploy-or-get-out-rule-is-about-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/02\/17\/mattis-deploy-or-get-out-rule-is-about-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattis: Deploy-or-get-out rule is about fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 New rules requiring members of the military to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/14\/dod-releases-new-deploy-or-get-out-policy\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\">be able to deploy or get out<\/a> were put in place to ensure fairness in deployment rates, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re either deployable, or you need to find something else to do. I\u2019m not going have some people deploying constantly and then other people, who seem to not pay that price, in the U.S. military,\u201d Mattis told reporters Feb. 17 in his first comments on the issue since the new policy was formally introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you can\u2019t go overseas [and] carry a combat load, then obviously someone else has got to go. I want this spread fairly and expertly across the force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under new rules first reported on by Military Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/05\/deploy-or-get-out-new-pentagon-plan-could-boot-thousands-of-non-deployable-troops\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">military members who have been non-deployable for the past 12 months<\/a> or more will be separated from the military. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approximately 11 percent, or 235,000, of the 2.1 million personnel serving on active duty, in the reserves or National Guard are currently non-deployable, Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. 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If you can\u2019t keep the family together, then you\u2019re either going to lose the family or you\u2019re going to lose the soldier, and that\u2019s a net loss for our society and for our military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis stressed that those who were injured in the field would be exempt from the new policy, saying \u201cwe\u2019ll find a place to use them. That\u2019s a special category. They\u2019ve earned that special status.\u201d But for everyone else, either you have to be able to meet the requirements, or it\u2019s time for you to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the secretary did acknowledge that the failure to meet deployability requirements is not always on the individual. 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