KABUL – The US Army’s 101st Airborne Sustainment Brigade would deployto Afghanistan in the summer, the military announced on Wednesday.

In line its security policy, the Pentagon declined providing the numbers ofsoldiers expected to deploy. The Defense Department started withholding thenumbers last year.

Largely comprised of mounted infantrymen operating from armoured Strykervehicles, the regiment most recently deployed in 2016 to Afghanistan, whereit helped train Afghan forces fighting against the Talibanlink>.

The Special Troops battalion of the Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based 101stAirborne Division Sustainment Brigade will replace the 3rd InfantryDivision’s Sustainment Brigade in Afghanistan.

It will conduct logistics operations, including the delivery of food,water, fuel and ammunition to American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Itis the unit’s fifth deployment to Afghanistan.