Even if troop numbers hold up, Chalmers says future public support for the mission depends on progress.

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The announced troop cut was widely anticipated and will leave about 10,000 NATO forces in Kosovo compared to up to 15,000 troops there at any given time.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

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.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the troop build up could happen by this summer.

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"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.

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