Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012
By Robert Burns - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 26, 2011 9:55:07 EST
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines will march out of Afghanistan by the thousands next year, winding down combat in the Taliban heartland and testing the U.S. view that Afghan forces are capable of leading the fight against a battered but not yet beaten insurgency in the country’s southwestern reaches, senior U.S. military officers say.