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U.S. Soldiers Leave S. Korea for Staging Area in Kuwait

Written: 2004-08-04 00:00:00Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

A U.S. military newspaper says the first planeload of 2nd Infantry Division troops deploying from South Korea to Iraq departed on Monday.

Tuesday's edition of the Stars and Stripes says the three-thousand-600 troops of the division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team will be transported to Kuwait in what officials said will be a weeklong airlift operation.

The reports say that, in Kuwait, the troops will pick up tanks, Humvees and other combat equipment before driving into Iraq.

The three-thousand-600 troops comprise a brigade of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division currently deployed in bases along the inter-Korean border.

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