Lapan says that is what the investigation will determine.

拉潘说，有关调查就是要确定他们采取的哪些行动。

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What the investigation will determine is what actions took place, and if any of them were inappropriate or illegal," said Lapan.

拉潘说：“我们要调查他们都有哪些行为，这些行为是否恰当，是否违法。”

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But a Pentagon spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan, said there are indications of foreign powers pulling back from their dealings with the US.

但五角大楼发言人戴夫·拉潘上校说，与美国打交道的外国势力有退却的迹象。

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A Pentagon spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan, says the Post story itself notes that the 13,000 support troops are within the overall maximum authorized by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

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Again,Colonel Lapan. "The sense that there are somehow 13 that weren't authorized or that are somehow new, well then that would make the 68 number go up by 13,000,wouldn't it?

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"It is an agreement between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea for those dates, " Lapan said.

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Lapan said the exercise in international waters will be similar to others in the past, including one with the George Washington last year.

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David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said.

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