Iraq drawdown in the works

from Westhawk, details of how the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is being planned:

Combining the two lists, the following deployment plan emerges. One National Guard and eight active duty Army brigades are heading to Iraq for this rotation. One brigade listed in the 7 Nov 05 message, 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, had its deployment to Iraq cancelled in early May. Two Army division headquarters will command these brigades. The Marine Corps does not announce the rotation of its battalions into Iraq in these Department-level statements; we assume that about two regiments will join the II Marine Expeditionary Force headquarters unit in al-Anbar province. A new Army corps headquarters will command the whole bunch.

Thus, eleven brigade-equivalents will replace the fifteen brigades that have been in Iraq most of this year, a planned 27% reduction in combat brigades.

Manpower totals quoted on the two statements add up to 113,000. This compares to roughly 132,000 currently in Iraq and the Iraqi government’s stated goal of having U.S. manpower below 100,000 by the end of this year.
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In the last four months, the Army has tagged 7,000 Humvees and 17,000 other pieces of equipment to be shipped to the United States to be rebuilt. They then will be distributed among active and reserve units at home, or possibly returned to equip Iraqi security forces.