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Site SearchFORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Pentagon says the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division will be sent to Afghanistan to lead military efforts as part of a normal troop rotation.
The unit includes the top commanders of the Fort Bragg-based paratroop division. More than 800 soldiers in the headquarters unit will begin their one-year deployment this spring.
The Pentagon also said Monday that the deployment of 4,700 soldiers will include the 4th Brigade Combat Team from the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo.
The 82nd's headquarters, including the commanding general, returned last April from a 15-month deployment to Afghanistan.
The 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade also will deploy to Afghanistan in spring, officials said.
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Read some Ron Paul and educate yourself on why real conservatives oppose the Iraq war.
March 3, 2009 7:10 a.m.
And stopping genocide was NOT a good enough reason for going into Iraq, right Quagmire?
March 2, 2009 6:46 p.m.
Really? Tell me, which war, Iraq or Afghanistan, are conservatives against now that Bush is gone?
March 2, 2009 6:42 p.m.
But now the whiny antiwar protesters are ex Bush supporters.
March 2, 2009 4:33 p.m.
The Taliban number, by the latest estimates, about 15,000 fighters. We have about twice that number of men there now with more on the way. The Taliban live in mud houses and caves. We have technology literally 500 years ahead of them. We can win. If we don't there is no one to blame but a weak willed political class and whiny anti-war protestors.
March 2, 2009 4:31 p.m.