🔻CBS news, which is the BBC’s partner in the United States, has reported that families of American soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division who were deployed to the Middle East earlier this year have been informed by the command of this division that their mission may continue until 2027.

According to CBS News, this has been stated in a letter that the division’s commanders sent to the families, and two U.S. officials have also confirmed its contents.

In this letter, dated Sunday, the 8th of Shahrivar, the commanders of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said that the duration of the deployment of the forces may, in total, reach 12 months.

In the letter, General J. Gen. Brandon T. Wegmeyer, the division commander, and James Bradshaw, the division’s senior non-commissioned commander, wrote: “We raise this not lightly, and we know that extending the mission puts significant strain on every family; including our own.”

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