Army Reconnaissance Company Sent To Kosovo; Armored Troops Get Tanks, Artillery

By Thomas Duffy / March 30, 2000 at 5:00 AM
Defense Secretary William Cohen last night signed two new deployment orders sending an Army long-range reconnaissance company to Kosovo and 14 tanks to reinforce an armored company now stationed in Macedonia, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today. Brig. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of Task Force Falcon, the United States force in Kosovo, requested the deployments when he recently met with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton and Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark, Bacon said. The...

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