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35k is a lot.
Peak Iraq was 170k.
So, the US is at 25% of the deployment in Iraq .
Approximately 150,000 US soldiers were deployed in 2003. This number increased to its peak in 2007 of over 170,000 soldiers, three years after Bush claimed ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq on 1 May 2003.
So there are 17,500 American soldiers actively 'deployed' in the US?
35,000 boots on the ground 5 upvotes on Lemmy
Title is worded in a way that suggests it’s unusual for the army to be deployed within own country borders.