Operation: USELESS DIRT status

Via the White House.

Current U.S. troop deployments. This doesn't count other exercises and permanent party efforts (like Japan, S. Korea, etc.)

Some of it is fuzzy based on various classified efforts (operations and overall funding), as well as what current DOD forces can be inserted and withdrawn for one-off ops. And finally, just inaccurate reporting. For example: an Air Guard tanker unit that deploys over-seas supports these various ops.

The U.S. Constitution is mentioned at the end of the statement but that too, is optional based on starting illegal, undeclared wars in Libya and so on.

Afghanistan :10500.
Iraq/Syria: 3600
Turkey: 375
Somalia: ?
Yemen: ?
Djibouti: ?
Libya: ?
Niger: 350.
Cameroon: 300.
Africa LRA ops: 300.
Egypt: 700.
Jordan: 2000.
Kosovo (KFOR): 700

If you use the rule of threes: one package deployed (the requirement); one package working up for training and one package returning for rest and reorganisation before going into the working up for deployment bucket, you pretty much see our base need for leg infantry. Hard to determine how many of the above numbers are actually trigger-pullers. For example: tooth-to-tail for the M-1 tank is insane compared to any other normal tank.

Permanent party efforts in places like Japan and S. Korea, have had much of their pointy-end-of-the-spear resources raided to support useless dirt ops.

Then too you have out-sourced private security and logistics contractors and the other misuses of resources. For example: deploying the Coast Guard and various DOJ and other alphabet-soup U.S. fed outfits.

This really makes the money that the U.S. spends on "defense", muddy. The U.S. actually spends over a billion dollars each year on defense related activity. DOE/nukes, VA (one of the outputs of military service), and more. Think of that when you look at our total federal budget and national debt.

Fortunately we have over 900 flag-ranks to help run this sham.

"It used to be weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Today, wars are manufactured to sell weapons."

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