The Congress hasn't and won't bother funding the troops. The deployment will remain in limbo waiting for Congress to act. Congress is quite comfortable with allowing the President to send troops into war without authorization.
November 7, 2014
By RUDAW
WASHINGTON—US president Barack Obama (click here) has authorized the deployment of 1,500 military personnel to advise and train Iraqi and Kurdish forces, said a Pentagon statement on Friday.
“The commander in chief has authorized Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to deploy to Iraq up to 1,500 additional U.S. personnel over the coming months, in a non-combat role, to expand our advise and assist mission and initiate a comprehensive training effort for Iraqi forces,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby.
According to the Pentagon, the US troops were requested by the Iraqi government.
“[Defense] Secretary Hagel made this recommendation to President Obama based on the request of the Government of Iraq, U.S. Central Command's assessment of Iraqi units,” said Kirby.
The US currently has 1,400 military advisors in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, helping with intelligence gathering and airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) which took over Mosul and most of Iraq’s Sunni heartland in the summer.
The US currently has 1,400 military advisors in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, helping with intelligence gathering and airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) which took over Mosul and most of Iraq’s Sunni heartland in the summer.
The statement said that deployment of the new non-combat force in Iraq will include establishing two “expeditionary advise and assist operations centers,” outside Baghdad and Erbil....
