Infantry: June 4, 2003

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For decades, the U.S. Army Special Forces have specialized in training foreign troops. This provided a useful means of helping allies, and getting to know what was going on in those countries. But the Special Forces are being worked so hard in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, that other troops are being sent in to take over some of the training missions. Marines were sent to the Caucasus to train Georgian troops, and National Guard troops are being sent to other nations for training missions. 

 

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