Pentagon Notifying 47,000 More US Troops They Will Be Dispatched...

[displacedtexan]

Pentagon Notifying 47,000 More US Troops They Will Be Dispatched to Iraq for One Year

By Robert Burns The Associated Press
Published: May 4, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is notifying about 10,000 active-duty Army and Marine Corps troops and about 37,000 National Guard and Reserve soldiers that they will be sent to Iraq this year as replacements for units that will have served there a year or longer, officials said Tuesday.

The Army planned to announce the decision Tuesday afternoon, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

About 5,000 Marines and a contingent of about 5,000 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, N.Y., will go this summer to relieve the 1st Armored Division and the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, whose soldiers were due to come home in April but were extended by three months.

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[buddy22600]

1. well by this summer the US death toll will be over 450,000 troops.

[Sub Atomic]

That sure is optimistic!!

:eyes:

[northzax]

2. er, what?

who exactly is going to kill 450,000 troops? in a month?

[displacedtexan]

3. 37000 are Reserves and National Guard

Details about the 37,000 National Guard and Reserve troops who are being alerted for Iraq duty were not immediately available. They will provide support for the three National Guard combat brigades that were notified earlier this year that they will be going to Iraq for one-year tours late this year or early in 2005. A large proportion of the 37,000 are Army Reserve, one official said.