30,000 Troops Will Head to Afghanistan

1,500 troops from an infantry battalion task force at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina will head to Afghanistan later this month, the first percentage in the total deployment of 30,000 more troops that the president has just announced. Another 13,500 troops will to Afghanistan by the end of spring, including an additional 6,200 Marines from Regimental Combat Team-2 at Camp Lejeune; 800 from I Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, California; 3,400 troops from a Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, New York; and 4,100 support forces, according to the Department of Defense.