 Media Credit: Sgt. Amber Robinson - Associated Press In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Armored Security Vehicles move into Forward Operating Base Shank as part of a four-hour convoy that carried soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from Bagram Air Field to the the FOB in the Logar province of Eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan 24, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops originally destined for Iraq have deployed south of Afghanistan's capital in the first illustration of a new military focus on the increasingly difficult fight in the South Asian nation. Nearly 3,000 American soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, New York, moved into the provinces of Logar and Wardak to the NATO said Tuesday. They will serve as part of the 55,000-strong NATO force in the country.
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FORT DRUM, N.Y. - No more than an estimated 30,000 additional troops will be sent to Afghanistan as the U.S. ramps up forces there, the nation's top military officer told soldiers Monday.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen also called U.S. efforts in Iraq a success, even though "we're not done."
Mullen, speaking to fresh-faced soldiers and war-weary military wives, sought to boost morale and soothe concerns at the Army base that has seen a constant revolving door of troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years.
"I don't see us growing a force well beyond the 20,000 to 30,000 for Afghanistan - American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines - beyond that 30,000 or so," Mullen told about 800 soldiers and specialists gathered for a town hall meeting.
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