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Article: FORT LEAVENWORTH BIDS FAREWELL TO CALDWELLS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
Training and Doctrine Command's commanding general, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, said that Fort Leavenworth's outgoing commander is a perfect choice for security transition in Afghanistan.
"I don't know what the new strategy's going to say," Dempsey said of the U.S. plan in Afghanistan. "I don't know how many troops we're going to contribute to it beyond what we've contributed, but what I do know is that of all the jobs in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the one that actually does produce the possibility of success and the possibility of transitioning responsibility to the host nation, it's that job, and so it's not a ...