(The story has been refiled after Pentagon says 800 Marines in Moron, Spain, not 500, in paragraph 14)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it was bolstering the size of its Europe-based Africa crisis response force to 975 Marines, sending 175 new troops to a Romanian base near the Black Sea at a time of tensions over Russia's annexation of part of Ukraine.
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