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Many of the 7,000 U.S. troops activated Thursday in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine will join up with multinational troops as part of the NATO Response Force.

The Pentagon said that the troops will head first to Germany, but could spread out as NATO decides where they're most needed.

We are grateful to our allies Canada and the United States for their recent commitments to deploy an additional 7,460 troops, including an armored brigade combat team, to support this Alliance-wide effort.

Between 10,000 and 12,000 U.S. troops have been put on heightened alert to deploy, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Military Times on Friday, though he could not be more specific.

The most recent, 7,000-soldier slice includes the 1st Armored brigade combat team, 3rd infantry division from Fort Stewart, Georgia, and some other units.

Kirby said that they will be partially committed to the NATO Response Force.

Kirby said that they are still working their way through the NATO Response Force package.

There are concerns over miscalculations with Russia.

The U.S. has activated thousands of troops for Europe. There are 4,700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have been sent to Poland.

More than 1,000 troops, including aircrew, maintainers and staff, started moving out this week to support the six Air Force F-35 strike fighters, 32 Army AH-64 Apache helicopters, and 800 members of the infantry task force battalion to the Baltic states, Poland and Romania.

With the NATO Response Force activated, the U.S. expects to start attaching more troops to that organization to deter Russia from attacking NATO territory.

Kirby said that the menu of options would be available to national leaders.

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