US military plans on long stay to airlift supplies to coast
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- With two crucial assets, helicopters and organizational skills, the US military is likely to stay on the devastated coast of Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Sumatra island for an extended period, US officers said yesterday.
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he Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban offensive in the spring
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U.S. military commanders said Friday the troop buildup in Iraq must be maintained until at least next summer and they may need as long as two years to assure parts of the country are stable.
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The US government is to let oil refineries borrow crude from its emergency stockpile to make up for supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan.
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The commander of the biggest US military hospital abroad said Tuesday that American troopsâ body armor and speedy evacuations appear to be helping save lives in the
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The United States could deploy a system to protect an area ranging from Washington to Boston from sea-based cruise-missile attacks within 14 months at a cost of "several billion dollars," a top Lockheed Martin Corp. executive said on Monday.
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European and Asian countries with U.S. troops have braced for the changes for several years, but Bush's announcement Monday that up to 70,000 uniformed personnel and 100,000 dependents will gradually be moved ...
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America's outgoing secretary of state says he will call for long-term US aid to the Indian Ocean region.
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President Bush this week will announce plans to pull up to 70,000 U.S. troops out of Europe and Asia as part of a massive overhaul of U.S. forces overseas, according to a White House official.
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U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are likely to remain steady, at about 21,000, at least until next February, the top U.S. general for the mission there said Thursday.
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U.S. military  crews are launching more than 100 helicopter flights a day from  the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ferrying food, water  and medicine to tsunami victims, a task they say is far more  satisfactory than the Iraq war that seems only to destroy.
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Japan extended its naval mission to provide logistical support to the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan by six months on Tuesday and approved a plan to supply fuel for the coalition's helicopters.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 15 -- U.S. military commanders in South Asia said Saturday that they had nearly completed emergency relief missions in the tsunami-battered areas of Thailand and Sri Lanka and could withdraw the bulk of American troops within two weeks. But the devastated western coast of Indonesia could need foreign military assistance for some time, they said.
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US President Bush is weighing an increase in the size of the military to deal with the long-term fight against terrorism.
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All U.S. troop reinforcements heading to Iraq to help restore security have now arrived, but it could take several more months before their weight is fully felt, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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Military officials said that about 3,200 Marines are being told to prepare to go to Afghanistan Â a move that will boost combat troop levels in time for an expected Taliban offensive this spring.