Army to Call Up 5,000 More Ex-Soldiers in 2005
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The US Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, plans to summon a similar number next year for duty
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Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find.
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The U.S. Army National Guard,  battered by its major role in the Iraq war, announced on  Thursday it would increase enlistment bonuses to attract new  recruits and seek $20 billion to replace arms and equipment.
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Britain said Monday it was sending 900 more soldiers to southern Afghanistan to combat resistance from a resurgent Taliban.
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Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said yesterday that the increase of 17,500 Army combat troops in Iraq represents only the "tip of the iceberg" and will potentially require thousands of additional support troops and trainers, as well as equipment -- further eroding the Army's...
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The Pentagon said Wednesday that it will boost the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the U.S. occupation began 19 months ago.
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The number of U.N. peacekeepers in  Lebanon has grown to about 5,000, a spokesman said on Tuesday,  reaching a level which the United Nations sees as sufficient  for Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
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A Northern Ireland contact centre says that it will recruit another 500 people over the next two months.
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WASHINGTON -- Thirty percent of former US soldiers who have been called back to duty involuntarily to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to report on time, and eight have been declared AWOL, the Army said yesterday.
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Coalition forces in Afghanistan will need more troops next year if they are to exploit successes achieved this year, the force's commander David Richards told the BBC in an interview.
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With the U.S. military heavily  engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior general said on  Thursday he expected the Pentagon will make permanent a  temporary increase of 30,000 soldiers in the Army.
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The Army surpassed its active-duty recruiting goal for August by more than 5 percent, using higher enlistment bonuses and additional recruiters to turn around an early summer slump that threatened the service's fiscal year goal of 80,000 by the end of September.
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More ex-service personnel will get free mental health assessments, under plans to be announced.
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ARLINGTON, Va. - The Pentagon is extending deployments of more than 10,300 soldiers and Marines in Iraq for two to four months and bringing in an additional 1,500 soldiers from the United States to assist
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Army officials say they may be forced to make greater use of the National Guard to provide enough troops for overseas deployments.
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The Ministry of Defence has given the country's more than 12,000 soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan social interaction guides to help them communicate with the local population, The Times reported on Monday.
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The Israeli army said on Tuesday it  could complete a pullout from southern Lebanon within a few  days as the United Nations said the number of peacekeepers in  the devastated country had reached 5,000.