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Eisenhower deployed the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Kennedy escalated U.S. involvement by sending thousands of additional military advisors and Special Forces to South Vietnam.
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He deployed U.S. Army paratroopers and federalized the Michigan National Guard at the request of the governor.
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During the war between Israel and Arab states, Nixon ordered a massive airlift of military supplies to Israel.
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Carter authorized a failed rescue attempt, Operation Eagle Claw, in April 1980. The mission was aborted due to equipment failures and resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. service members in a desert crash.
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Reagan invoked the Insurrection Act to deploy federal forces, including the FBI and federal marshals, to end a hostage situation by Cuban detainees at an Atlanta federal prison.
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Bush ordered Operation Just Cause to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
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Clinton deployed U.S. troops to Haiti as part of Operation Uphold Democracy to restore the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
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Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom to dismantle Al-Qaeda and overthrow the Taliban regime in Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks.
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Obama deployed approximately 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to build treatment facilities and provide logistical support to help contain the Ebola outbreak.