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[StephanieVanbryce]

well, here goes everything.. your kids ss, your medicare, your pensions, your teachers, schools, medicaid
funds to the states, no doubt traffic lights and of course SCREW the infrastructure and every thing else

25K soldiers headed to Afghanistan in 2011

By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Dec 22, 2010 12:48:06 EST

Nearly 25,000 troops will board planes for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan starting soon after New Year's, the Defense Department has announced.

About 18,000 soldiers in five infantry brigade combat teams as well as two combat aviation brigades and a headquarters element will deploy to Afghanistan as part of the regular troop rotations.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed the deployment orders a day after President Obama said he will start bringing troops home from Afghanistan in July. In the same breath, he said the U.S. will not finish transitioning military forces out of Afghanistan until 2014. The U.S. has 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, 67,000 of them soldiers.

There's plenty more .. !
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/12/army-afghanistan-deployments-in-2011-122110w/

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