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Eastern flank. and that kind of gets out your second question, which is we are still in consultation with the allies about what they might need. and so i do not have any decisions in terms of specific locations. but we have made it clear to the eastern flank allies that we are prepared to bolster their capabilities if they need it. again, i want to go back to a core foundation year. the bulk of the trips i am talking about today are intended for the nato response force. the vast majority of them. that response force can only be activated by the alliance. it has not been. it is our contribution...

The 18th airborne corps, as a set in my opening statement that is going to germany, they are going to form a joint task force headquarters and that is depending on the needed task at hand, several hundred people. the majority that i mentioned that comprise the 82nd airborne brigade combat team, that leading element will be going to poland. >> bill: read thousand u.s. troops. this is in addition to the 8500. they've not been given deployment orders, that they been put on notice. >> dana: other things that admiral has said is that they are coming from fort bragg. they will be under u.s. command....

As well inside europe to bolster nato allies on the eastern flank, and that kind of gets at your second question, which is we are still in consultation with the allies about what they might need, and so i don't have any decisions to read out in terms of specific locations, but we certainly have made it clear to the eastern flank allies that they are prepared to bolster capabilities if needed. again, i want to go back to a core foundation here, the bulk of the troops i'm talking about today are intended for the nato response force, the vast majority of them, and that can only be activated by th...

Brigade in the deployment orders or are they completely separate because they're an already scheduled deployment? and then one other -- are there more -- are these troops that are going, are they under nato or are these all unilateral u.s. moves? thank you. >> let me see if i can remember all those. the troops that i'm talking about today will be going under u.s. command, but as i said, in the case of romania, we know the french are going to be preparing to deploy troops there. we will find ways to complement that force presence, again, in full consultation with romania. i wouldn't describe th...

Size and scale, would exact consequences on russia. not just from the united states, but from the international community. nobody wants to see any incursion of any size. >> okay. so you mentioned the troops. how close are the 82nd the 101st and others to actually deploying. >> right now, they have been put on a shorter tether. they have been put on the heightened alert, prepare it to deploy orders as we call it. in some cases, for instance, some of the units have gone from -- they're were in a heightened state of readiness, ten days tecs tether to go, nowe on five days. some are not quite in t...