Soldiers just back from Iraq get new orders: Afghanistan

Soldiers just back from Iraq get new orders: Afghanistan
By Chelsea J. Carter, CNN
Wed December 21, 2011

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Some soldiers just back from Iraq are heading to Afghanistan, the military says
The deployments are part of an overall U.S. exit strategy from Afghanistan
Lots of details are unknown, one brigade tells its soldiers
Family members of those soldiers just back from Iraq have mixed feelings

Atlanta (CNN) -- Soldiers who just returned from Iraq are among several thousand being ordered to Afghanistan in six months as part of a mission designed to beef up Afghan forces ahead of a planned 2014 U.S. military withdrawal, officials said.

News of the pending Afghanistan deployments came as families at bases across the country were celebrating the return in recent days of troops who turned off the lights at a number of U.S. bases ahead of an end-of-the-year deadline to leave Iraq.
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