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More from Reuters:
U.S. Alerting More Troops for Iraq Duty Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed that the troops would be part of a 2004 Iraq rotation plan and that the 132,000 U.S. troops now there could actually decrease to just over 100,000 in May. Story.
Senator Says Downed Chopper Lacked Protective Gear So we were essentially flying around for five months with no anti-missile equipment. And for the life of me, I cannot understand what goes through the head of commanders that would load 30 soldiers into an aircraft with no protection against such a credible threat. That's a quote from an email a US pilot sent to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. Durbin spoke out on ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday, saying helicopter crews have been forced to scavenge anti-missile equipment from other helicopters, and that he has asked our beloved Defense Secretary to look into the matter. More here.
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