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a related question about the current SF structure that perhaps you experienced gentlemen can answer. i recently saw a report that indicated that the current size of the SF force is approx. 50,000. Of that 50,000 the report indicated that some 7,000 of those men are deployed throughout the world - boots on the ground as they say. What are the other 43k doing, exactly? I noted in the report (I'll have to dig up a copy - came from one of the news agencies) that the 7k deployed included SF folks training liaison forces. If 7k of the 50k are carrying the fight, then it would seem to me that increasing from 50k to 60k, as the media has suggested the numbers to be, isn't that necessary.
That being said, I recognize the Army understands the critical skills that SF soldiers bring to the battlefield (we saw this with the proposal earlier last year to transfer Langley's CA mission to SOCOM) and with the current tempo of operations, the use of SF in hotspots is likely to increase significantly. For this layman, however, i'm curious as to how the structure is currently setup.
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