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Fort Drum, NY – President Obama is scheduled to visit Fort Drum to meet with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division and Gold Star families. WAMC's Ian Pickus has more...
Obama's visit Thursday to the northern New York Army post comes a day after he's expected to call for a major withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. A senior U.S. defense official says the phased drawdown is likely to start with 5,000 troops recalled this summer and 5,000 more by winter or spring 2012.
As of Tuesday, at least 1,522 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion in late 2001. About 100,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, three times as many as when Obama took office.
The 10th Mountain Division is one of the most frequently deployed divisions to Afghanistan.
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