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By PAUL MCLEARY
WASHINGTON — As Capitol Hill wrangles with crafting a bill that would authorize President Obama to launch airstrikes against the regime of Bashir Assad in Syria — an operation that will almost certainly exclude the US Army — the nation’s ground pounders are actually hard at work on the other side of the world.
There are still tens of thousands of soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan, of course, but there are also some significant doings concerning the strategic “rebalance” to the Asia Pacific.
Remember that?
On Sept. 4, the Army announced it had approved the deployment of 380 soldiers and 30 OH-58D Kiowa helicopters to Camp Humphreys, South Korea, beginning Oct. 1 for a nine-month rotational tour.
The 4th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment had previously been stationed in Korea until its 2008 deployment to Iraq, after which it was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.
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