Im in the army and currently in Afghanistan and i think its about time that they changed it back to 12 months. No the 15 month tours were started to bring up numbers in iraq, particularly baghdad, i want to know why they didnt increase deployments for any of the other branches of the military? it seems that everyone else only gets deployed for 6 months at a time. it seems to me that the army gets screwed all over in this war. not only that but they took away our reenlistment bonus right now too.