Skynews reports that President barack Obama confirmed the deployment in a letter he sent to House Speaker John Boehner and to Senate lawmakers.
It was reported that Mr Obama said the personnel would help with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria, which shares a border with Chad.
It was gathered that the team who are due to arrive on Wednesday may already be there, according to Pentagon spokesman Myles Caggins.
According to Caggins, the 80 U.S. military personnel will help expand drone searches of the region. About 40 of the troops make up the launch and recovering teams for the drone being deployed there and the other 40 make up the security force for the team. Caggins said this latest deployment will not involve ground searches by the troops.
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