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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Most troops are "support" troops - CC can correct me on this, but for an American division with 25,000 personnel, I believe only 7-8,000 are actually "combat" troops.
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Depends on the division, but most divisions are between 18 and 25k men. In terms of combat power. If you look at the 1st Cav its got
A headquarters battalion
4 Maneuver divisions, each of which consist of 3 tank battalions, 1 artillary batalion, a support brigade, and a special troop brigade which is usually scout.
1 combat aviation brigade
I think that the number of actual combat troops is much higher then 8 thousand if you include field artillary and aviation as combat troops.
I think in the case most of those 50,000 are involved in administration, logistics and supervising the dismantling of the American infrastructure there. Probably the minority are trainers and advisors.
It is good to see the American's leaving Iraq, it will be interesting to see what happens there. We will either see Iraq break into civil war, or we'll see the rise of another strong man.
But I think democracy will be a short lived experiment.