Troops, families mixed over Afghan surge (AP)


Written on December 2, 2009 – 2:08 pm | by

U.S. Army soldiers walk towards a motor pool at Forward Operating Base Airborne, near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan Wednesday Dec. 2, 2009. President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - U.S. service members in Afghanistan said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops offered hope that they can go home — if the reinforcements can build up the Afghan army to protect civilians against the Taliban.

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