We would troop up there after work, tired and ripe, and throw back pints among what passed for high rollers on that part of the coast.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the troop build up could happen by this summer.
Today, the top two Senate and House Democrats vowed they will push ahead with votes on non-binding resolution opposing the troop build up.
"Even if it just keeps the troop morale up and just gives them a glimmer that someone cares, somebody is supporting and thinking of them . they can make it through the job they have to do to come home, " she said.
McCain's support for the troop build-up in Iraq is drawing fire from anti-war activists.
But now the date is known, public opinion will not tolerate ramping troop numbers back up, the hawk concedes.
"I remain skeptical ... about a significant troop build-up when the legitimacy of our Afghan partner is in serious question, " he said.
The BBC's Mark Doyle in Mali says a big international troop build-up is continuing ahead of a probable French-led air and ground offensive on Gao and other desert cities.
Negotiations over that issue had been tied up over troop movements.
If the military had a troop shortage could shore up its numbers by allowing openly gay service members to serve, it would have done that a long time ago, too.
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And that is, back in December of 2009, as part of the policy and approach and strategy that he laid out for Afghanistan, he said that we would, after ramping up our troop presence in Afghanistan, adding another 30, 000 troops, in addition to the troops he had added before, that we would begin a transition and we would begin to draw down our troops.
Still, the move Thursday came amid a big drop in violence across Iraq and calls from Iraqis for the United States to come up with a troop withdrawal timetable.
America has reiterated its commitment to defending South Korea from attack by the communist North, stressing that its improving technology and weapons more than make up for reduced troop numbers.
The Clinton Administration does, though, and Washington seems to be creeping up to the ground-troop question only inch by reluctant inch.
From the CBS visitor centre in Bermudian Landing, local village guides lead short nature walks that provide an up-close introduction to a resident troop of black howlers.
No wonder the Pentagon has drawn up plans to increase significantly America's troop strength in Iraq.
In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.
On Monday, CNN learned that U.S. commanders in Iraq have asked the Pentagon to extend tours of duty for about 15, 000 troops in the war zone by up to four months as part of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq that began in January.
TUZLA, Bosnia Herzegovina (CNN) -- While the administration and Congress gear up for what promises to be a fierce debate on U.S. troop deployment in Bosnia, the city where the troops will begin their work is preparing for their arrival.
Possibly President Gorbachev has been so alarmed by Mr. Bush's sudden troop buildup that he feels the only way to slow down the momentum for war is by holding up Security Council endorsement.
Brown said the troop increase was contingent upon other countries also providing more boots on the ground, the Afghans stepping up their commitment to their own security, and the British troops being properly equipped.
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- As the first Iraqi soldiers lined up to surrender, coalition aircraft Wednesday dropped more than 2 million leaflets over suspected Iraqi troop positions, delivering for the first time a "capitulation" message and telling Iraqi soldiers how to avoid being harmed in the expected U.S.-led invasion.
Mr. Kim also said that there were no signs of any unusual North Korean troop mobilizations or other signals to suggest an imminent threat to South Korea or its neighbors as Pyongyang keeps up its recent warlike rhetoric.
By the time I joined up as a Tiger Cub, through when I earned my Eagle Award in 2008, my troop, and the other troops I encountered, were filled with a bunch of grade-A weirdos some of the choicest misfits around.
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Later, when my parents had come home and neighbors began to troop in to say ndo sorry and to snap their fingers and heave their shoulders up and down, I sat alone in my room upstairs and realized what the queasiness in my gut was: Nnamabia had done it, I knew.
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