United States Army Humvee utility vehicles pass a welcoming sign attached to a highway route marker in the Kuwait desert January 5, 2003. The Army is already beginning to deploy more than 11,000 soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division in the state of Georgia as well as hundreds of engineers and intelligence specialists from Germany to the Gulf in a new year surge of troops, warplanes and ships in case President George W. Bush orders an invasion of Iraq. REUTERS/Chris Helgren |