{"id":353170,"date":"2026-05-01T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/us-to-withdraw-5000-troops-from-germany"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:18:51","slug":"us-to-withdraw-5000-troops-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/us-to-withdraw-5000-troops-from-germany","title":{"rendered":"US to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ordering the withdrawal of about 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced Friday. <!-- -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The withdrawal of these troops is expected to be completed over the next six to 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This decision follows a thorough review of the Department\u2019s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground,&#8221; Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There are 38,000 U.S. troops in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/us-withdraw-5000-troops-germany\/story?id=132587562\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ordering the withdrawal of about 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced Friday. \u00a0 The withdrawal of these troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4083,1838,4348,8995,6810,9876,6214,173,390],"class_list":["post-353170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-pentagon","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-protection-secretary","tag-sean-parnell","tag-spokesman","tag-united-states","tag-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353172,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353170\/revisions\/353172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}