Afghan Pullout Marks End Of "Surge" Troops' Tour -- CBS News
One hundred thousand U.S. servicemen and women are based in Afghanistan. Up to 10,000 of them will be removed between now and the middle of next year, CBS News correspondent Bill Plante reported on CBS' "The Early Show."
President Obama is expected to address the nation Wednesday night and announce his plans to start pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan during the next 12 months. Mr. Obama is also weighing a timeline for bringing home the remaining 20,000 of the 30,000 "surge" troops he ordered to Afghanistan as part of his December 2009 decision to send reinforcements to reverse the Taliban's battlefield momentum.
Several news outlets have reported that the majority of the "surge" troops would be withdrawn by the end of 2012.
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