In terms of the withdrawal plan and how we are actually going to terminate the mission in Afghanistan, it will be done in a way that will never diminish the requirement for equipment and the protection our soldiers have or need in Afghanistan, up until the moment they cease combat operations. They will not lose any equipment. They will not lose for the sake of saying that we are starting to draw down. The drawdown of necessary equipment will start only when the combat operations cease, and the troops stay, as the term is used, “inside the wire”.
On March 18th, 2010. See this statement in context.