It's from this building that tens of thousands of field-based peacekeeping troops get their direction.
The relationships between soldiers begin as the result of common suffering in basic training, schools and field training where the troops brave cold, rain, homesickness and exhausting work to accomplish a common goal.
But watch what happens in their districts if the issue becomes reduced support for troops in the field.
The implication is clear - the more Afghan troops in the field, the quicker British and other forces can go home.
Bob Gates made it his mission to make sure this department is serving our troops in the field as well as they serve us.
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Manning calmly leading his troops down the field in crunch time, this time 88 yards in nine plays, to give his club the lead for good.
We are going to be pursuing those kinds of efficiencies in the defense budget even while making sure that our troops in the field are adequately funded.
But, by cutting off money, the Democrats lay themselves open to the charge that they are damaging the morale and perhaps even the capabilities of troops in the field.
Cohen said the decision Sunday to send U.S. helicopter gunships and short-range missiles to the region is an escalation of the existing allied air campaign, not a move toward putting troops into the field.
Meanwhile, while the Democrats delay, the Army has had to start cutting back on non-essential equipment repair and training to ensure it is able to fund our troops in the field and provide support to their families.
The war killed civilians as well, as battles raged across farm and field, as encampments of troops spread epidemic disease, as guerrillas ensnared women and even children in violence and reprisals, as draft rioters targeted innocent citizens, as shortages of food in parts of the South brought starvation.
"Having consulted with generals and military experts and troops in the field I believe that five additional regiments in Baghdad working along side Iraqi forces as well as an additional two regiments can make a difference and potentially return the country to stability, " Romney said on the Glenn and Helen Show.
They do not want to send mixed signals to our troops out of the field, and obviously to the enemy.
Afghanistan's future turns on whether the central government appears stable, or whether it looks as if it will collapse as soon as NATO troops retreat from the field of battle.
The Minutemen, colonial troops ready to take the field on short notice in the American revolution, were in fact militiamen from New England.
South Sudanese troops have been deployed in the Heglig field since Tuesday.
The meeting came as Mullen is reviewing a formal request for forces from commanders in the field for 15, 000 to 20, 000 additional troops to send to Afghanistan in early 2009.
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That was reversed, based in part for concern for the oil fields, the desire to get those troops in on the ground and secure the oil field in the south and prevent a disaster there.
Meanwhile, columns of Pakistani troops in military trucks head in the opposite direction, hauling field guns north toward the conflict zone.
Five U.S. troops wounded in combat arrived this week at a U.S. military field hospital at Rota, the first such casualties sent to the hospital.
U.S. military commanders in the field have been warned to take extreme caution about approaching Iraqis who appear to be civilians or surrendering Iraqi troops.
Birmingham-based 202 Midlands Field Hospital is one of dozens of units involved in the joint exercises in Germany, alongside German and American troops.
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