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From an American Airlines Flight Attendant, February 20, 2003 Dear Friends: I have just returned from doing a small part in our efforts against world conflict. Just got home early from Frankfurt after having picked up a planeload of troops in Alexandria LA and taking them one leg of their trip....onward. They had just gotten word 24 hours earlier that full alert was "on" and they were getting ready to be transported. We arrived in Alexandria on the military airfield in our 777, and the busses were waiting. The troops started to appear from the busses and they were all...

US sends second wave of troops By Andrew Gumbel 05 March 2003 Military officials said yesterday they had ordered 60,000 US troops to the Gulf and expected to send between20,000 and 30,000 in the next few days as part of a second wave of the planned invasion force. The new deployments, including tank divisions from Germany and Fort Hood, Texas, push the number of US troops heading to the region to about 300,000. Britain is also expected to send 6,000 troops in the next few days, to supplement the 20,000 already in position in Kuwait. The final destination of the...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- After watching dozens of Navy ships deploy in recent months in preparation for a possible war with Iraq, sailors on three amphibious ships left Tuesday in this port's last planned deployment for the near future. "Trust me, we all want to go over there and get it over with," said Capt. David C. Taylor, commander of Amphibious Squadron Six. He said the crews had trained hard and had been ready to go since late November. The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima left Norfolk Naval Station on its maiden deployment, along with the amphibious transport dock...

AMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait, March 1 — In their desert camouflage uniforms of light beige and brown, the soldiers on the Fort Campbell airfield were clothed for weather in the Persian Gulf, not the cold, damp night air of a Kentucky winter. A thick coat of fog had dropped onto the Army base. For an instant as they filed in a long, single line onto their jet, the soldiers formed silhouettes against the murky glow of fog-shrouded runway lights.It was near midnight on Thursday, and the 101st Airborne Division — the Screaming Eagles — was beginning its flight from...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With the United States beefing up its military might around Iraq, another 60,000 troops -- including all 17,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division -- received orders to deploy to the Persian Gulf region, military officials said Monday.</p>

Several thousand allied special forces, including Australians and more than 300 elite British soldiers, are operating inside Iraq, the Daily Telegraph reported today. The deployment suggested that war has already begun, even as US-British efforts continue to secure a new United Nations resolution backing force against President Saddam Hussein's regime, the right-wing British paper said. The troops were part of joint special operations, which include more than 4,000 American and Australian special forces with headquarters in Qatar and bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Turkey, according to the Telegraph. Defence sources told the daily that about 240 men drawn from two...

The United States has ordered an extra 60,000 troops to head for the Gulf as it presses ahead with plans for a possible invasion of Iraq. A US defence official told the BBC that US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has authorised the extra troops, although they might only arrive after war has begun. Among the new forces being sent are the 1st Armoured Division and the 1st Cavalry Division. The accelerated military build-up was announced a day after US and UK planes launched a raid on southern Iraq which Baghdad said killed six people. It also comes despite Iraq's...

136th airlift wing Out of NAS/JRB Fort worth deployed! Going to an undisclosed location for at least a year... Go Get them Uncle Ron!

Several thousand allied special forces, including more than 300 SAS personnel, are already operating inside Iraq. This suggests that, despite efforts to secure a United Nations resolution backing force, the war has begun. Defence sources said last night that two SAS Sabre squadrons - about 240 men - plus more than 100 support troops were engaged in various parts of Iraq. The scale of the operations in the south and west is unprecedented. British special forces did not enter Iraq during the 1991 Gulf war until the ground offensive began. The men are part of joint special operations, which include...

Several thousand allied special forces, including more than 300 SAS personnel, are already operating inside Iraq.This suggests that, despite efforts to secure a United Nations resolution backing force, the war has begun. Defence sources said last night that two SAS Sabre squadrons - about 240 men - plus more than 100 support troops were engaged in various parts of Iraq. The scale of the operations in the south and west is unprecedented. British special forces did not enter Iraq during the 1991 Gulf war until the ground offensive began. The men are part of joint special operations, which include more...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has signed orders for the deployment of the 1st Armored Division and the 1st Cavalry Division as part of the US buildup against Iraq, a defense official said. The timing of the move is unclear, in part because at least some of those forces were originally destined for Turkey, whose parliament on Saturday rejected a plan for the deployment of US forces there, the official said. "That's one of the places they were going. So that's got to be resolved first," said the official, who asked not to be identified. The 1st...