Bush shifting U.S. troops out of Europe, Asia
Major redeployment of up to 100,000 GIs due to war on terror
Mike Allen, Tom Ricks, Washington Post
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Washington -- President Bush will announce Monday that he plans to pull 70,000 to 100,000 troops out of Europe and Asia in the first major reconfiguration of overseas military deployments by the United States since the Cold War ended, according to White House officials.
Bush, who will reveal the changes in a speech to the annual convention of the 2.6 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati, will say the change is necessary to adapt the nation's military to the demands of the global war on terrorism and to take advantage of new technologies, said a senior aide involved in developing the plan.
Two-thirds of the reduction will come from Europe, most of them Army soldiers in Germany, and most of the troops will be reassigned to bases in the United States, the aide said. Officials said exact details of the moves have not been finalized, but some of the troops from Germany and South Korea will be moved to expansion countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Eastern Europe......
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/15/MNGPQ88BLE1.DTL
Figure about 17,000 troops to each combat Division. Bases in the USA? Most of those that come out of Germany and Europe in general will be Armor outfits (HoooooYA: Combat Arm of Decision! Can't help it, I'm a tanker) and the biggest Armor base in the country is at Fort Hood Texas....and just which national border is close to that point? This begins to come a bit clearer, to me anyway.