The Metropolitan Police and its supporting forces assigned 84, 000 officer-hours to the operation and warned there would be a "swift and efficient policing response" at the first sign of trouble.

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Approximately 61, 000 of these forces are assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

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We doubled the personnel assigned to Border Enforcement Security Task Forces.

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But he said the land forces could continue their assigned missions if they were cut to their pre-2001 levels of 175, 000 for the Marines and 482, 000 for the Army.

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The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.

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And he has assigned committee Democrats and Republicans to task forces that will review specific areas of the code.

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Their brigade -- based at North Carolina's Fort Bragg -- is among the first specifically assigned to train Afghan security and military forces.

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Two British military transport aircraft have been assigned to help with the French troop deployment, but no British forces will be in a combat role, the UK Foreign Office said.

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The total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan is approximately 90, 000, of which more than 70, 000 are assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

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