Decision on Europe-based brigades expected early this year

[unhappycamper]

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Decision on Europe-based brigades expected early this year
By John Vandiver
Stars and Stripes
Published: January 3, 2011

STUTTGART, Germany — In the coming months, the Defense Department is finally to decide whether to act on a nearly 10-year-old plan to return two brigade combat teams to stateside bases or hold steady in a post-Cold War world, even as European militaries are scaling back.

[MadHound]

1. My money is on keeping them in Europe,

After all, there's money to be made by deploying our troops to cushy locations.

[Gaedel]

2. Europe quit being "cushy"

Way back when the dollar declined against the German mark.

When it was four marks to the dollar, you could still live in "the manner to which you would like to become accustomed".