{"id":381,"date":"2010-07-08T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?381"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:51:45","slug":"hundreds-more-british-troops-to-head-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/us\/news\/hundreds-more-british-troops-to-head-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hundreds more&#8217; British troops to head to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of extra British troops are to be deployed to Afghanistan to assist in the war effort in the country, it has been revealed.<br><br>Defence secretary Liam Fox told the House of Commons around 300 troops will be sent to account for the summer fighting season, the Metro reports.<br><br>Servicemen and women from the Cyprus-based Theatre Reserve Battalion are to join those stationed at Helmand province until October.<br><br>Mr Fox explained the soldiers would accompany the UK-led Task Force Helmand, along with Danish and Estonian allies in the central population belt.<br><br>Prime minister David Cameron commented: &quot;This is the time to get the job done and the plan we envisage makes sure that we won&rsquo;t be in Afghanistan in 2015.&quot; <br><br>It was recently revealed more than 600 troops from the Third Battalion (Staffords) Mercian Regiment will be sent to the country early next year to add reinforcement to the soldiers overseas.<br><br>Posted by Simon Williams<br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-19880877-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=19880877\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers will be deployed for the summer fighting season, it has been suggested.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Hundreds more&#039; British troops to head to Afghanistan - Forces Penpals US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/us\/news\/hundreds-more-british-troops-to-head-to-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Hundreds more&#039; 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