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Story, watching the hearing and talking to people over there, good morning, mike. first, to the deployment issue related to afghanistan. why the hold-up, and why the delay? >> reporter: admiral mull ln laid out, bill, 4500 of the surge troops are already there in country, and the number will rise to 18,000 by spring, and then they say they'll have the 30,000 additional troops by the end of summer. the pentagon says the issue is essentially that if an army unit has spent a year deployed in iraq or afghanistan, you need to give them a year at home, with family, and, to essentially retrain, reple...