{"id":48326,"date":"2019-03-20T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/20\/thousands-more-soldiers-will-deploy-to-pacific-to-increase-army-footprint\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:01:26","slug":"thousands-more-soldiers-will-deploy-to-pacific-to-increase-army-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/03\/20\/thousands-more-soldiers-will-deploy-to-pacific-to-increase-army-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands more soldiers will deploy to Pacific to increase Army footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a move to bolster U.S. troop presence<\/a> in the Pacific, the Army has plans to deploy thousands of soldiers to the region for ongoing rotations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new deployments could include as many as 5,000 to 10,000 troops, the equivalent of a division headquarters and several brigades, Gen. Robert Brown, commander of Army forces in the Pacific, told Stars and Stripes<\/a> in a media roundtable interview this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown said that existing rotations<\/a> and forces stationed in the region would remain in their assigned missions and that the new rotations would add to that force strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. James McConville, vice chief of staff of the Army, said at the interview that the force is part of the Dynamic Force Employment concept unveiled last year as part of the National Defense Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about moving troops into a place with certain capabilities based on the partners we\u2019re dealing with \u2014 move them out and move them back,\u201d he told Stripes<\/a>. \u201cAnd then have the agility to move around the globe and in this theater the way we need to in response to our partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\t