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These 3,000 are there to bolster it and the airport can facilitate the movement of people, this is about prudent preparation. we want to make sure that we have enough on hand to adapt to any contingencies. so i -- your question about the numbers being too high. we believe it's appropriate to the security situation that we see now and that we can anticipate possibly in the future, which is again why we're going to flow a brigade combat team in case we need more. hopefully, courtney, this will be a permissive environment and we won't need these additional capabilities. but the secretary believes...

To be an acceleration of getting civilians out? >> to your first question, no. i think we laid out clearly three infantry battalions on the way now and a brigade combat team being brought over into the region as a reserve. so there's no plans right now for additional forces. i can only the say what i said before to david. there was one precipitating event in the last couple days that led the president and the secretary to make this decision. it's a confluence of events. as i have been saying for now for several weeks, we've been watching closely with concerns the security situation on the grou...

Applicants. sounds like you're building -- >> when i say engineers, we're talking about a small number of engineers and largely for electrical power to make sure that we have power to do the processing of applicants. by engineers, i didn't mean construction and that kind of thing. >> so the kuwait is 3,000 to 3,500 people total, right? >> infantry, combat brigade. >> so 3,000 people coming right away. then another 3,500 that will be there on stand by for security. i'm unclear what they're doing. if the 3,000 -- it's like a couple miles from the embassy. what are 3,000 people doing? securing th...

Troops from 6th Battalion conducted an offensive operation in armoured personnel carriers supported by battle tanks.

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