Obama White House To Start Publicly Walking Away From 2011 Afghan Withdraw Date

50,000 non combat troops
==========­==========­=

To begin with,  ALL troops are 'combat troops'; all are trained and combat-ready.

But even the troops referred to in Iraq (and I'm not even referring to the 100,000 US private contracted troops that ARE engaging in combat), the units deployed in Iraq after August 31st 2010 will all be fully functional combat units. The only difference is that we will now call them by a different name, in which the word "combat" no longer appears. They are now termed "advise and assist brigades" by the administration.  
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost