According to a new article in the Military Times, the Army is targeting for deployment the 7.2 percent of active-duty soldiers who have yet to serve in war zones.  Since the war in Afghanistan began six years ago, 59.4 percent (515,000 soldiers) of the Army has deployed at least once to regions under the Central Command.  The remaining 33.4 percent of soldiers are either non-deployable or about to leave for war.

Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody told the Military Times among the 7.2 percent still without war deployments are soldiers in the health and training fields:

Everybody wants to go downrange and be part of this because they know the importance of this war...At the same time, there’s a demand to make sure we have the right noncommissioned officer leaders and officer leaders at our training bases that are training up these young men and women to go to these units.

Of the 7.2 percent of soldiers (37,000 of them) without combat deployments:

--27.2 percent work in health services.
--7.1 percent work in career management fields and operations support (i.e. systems engineering, information systems management, and telecommunications).
--4.1 percent work in logistics, transportation, and human resources.
--3.5 percent serve in combat units.