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10-16-2009, 09:01 PM
Drum BCT’s Iraq deployment canceled
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 16, 2009 8:42:15 EDT
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — The Army is canceling the deployment of 3,500 Fort Drum troops to Iraq in January.
Fort Drum spokeswoman Julie Cupernall says there’s no word yet on whether the 3,500 troops of the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team might be headed to Afghanistan instead as part of a troop level increase now being debated by the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce the results of a review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan in the coming weeks. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan has requested more troops to fight the insurgency there.
For now, Cupernall says the 1st BCT goes back into a pool of deployable brigades.
Meanwhile, troops from the division’s Aviation Brigade continue to return from a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 16, 2009 8:42:15 EDT
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — The Army is canceling the deployment of 3,500 Fort Drum troops to Iraq in January.
Fort Drum spokeswoman Julie Cupernall says there’s no word yet on whether the 3,500 troops of the 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team might be headed to Afghanistan instead as part of a troop level increase now being debated by the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce the results of a review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan in the coming weeks. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan has requested more troops to fight the insurgency there.
For now, Cupernall says the 1st BCT goes back into a pool of deployable brigades.
Meanwhile, troops from the division’s Aviation Brigade continue to return from a yearlong deployment in Iraq.