NATO officials are expected to decide tomorrow whether they will shorten by two-thirds the deployment schedule for two additional strategic reserve battalions in Kosovo, a force that includes Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit based on the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today. Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, made the request yesterday following increased violence in the town of Metrovica in Northern Kosovo. The North Atlantic Council, NATO's decisionmaking body, is scheduled to...
