Some troops don't get fair share of deployment burdens.

• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.
• Position: WASHINGTON PULSE: NEWS FROM INSIDE THE BELTWAY

* A Pentagon advisory panel suggests that Army and Marine Corps troop-rotation methods may be partly to blame for the stress in the force. The Defense Business Board, made up of former Pentagon and industry officials, parsed military payroll data from 2001 to 2008 and concluded that, over those seven years, certain groups--mostly senior enlisted, non-commissioned and junior officers--have been deployed nonstop while others have never been in combat. "The data indicates that current policies and practices are potential]y...