Which military base has the most troops in Iraq?

Answer 1

watch "TERRORSTORM" on google video. its free.wake up and pass it on sheeple.

Answer 2

The answer to that is on a rotational basis. Since not everyone assigned to a CONUS installation deploys, you have to subtract a certain number of personnel inevitably stuck on duties such as Rear Detachment or seconded to military schools (WLC, BNCOC, etc).

Look at the news, see which Divisions have deployed; for instance, it's 25th ID up north in Iraq for OIF-5 - and that's open source. This is open source as well:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=27

Thus you have three contenders: 1 MEF, 4th ID, 25th ID. From open source, you can tell that Schofield is a smaller installation than Hood (25th ID has been traditionally split between Schofield and Lewis for a long time). Thus, it's a toss-up between Hood and wherever 1 MEF is drawn from (Pendleton? 29?). Winner? Hood. This will change next year, of course.

Exact numbers are OPSEC. You can still figure out enough from open source if you know where to look.

SSG JB:

This information is open source. It's not like any of us are reading names and socials off of deployment manifests. No pictures are posted. No links are made to blogs. The link I posted is to the Multi-National Force Iraq homepage, which is accesible to the public. If everything was considered OPSEC, there wouldn't be any progress in the academic world. RAND wouldn't be able to publish any of their studies openly. Half the stuff put out by the GAO would be shoved down some deep dark hole to be opened a 100 years later. There's OPSEC, like talking in detail about IEDs. Where does talking about units assigned to each post become OPSEC when every post has a website with tenant units listed on it, and Division PAO's release open source news on units that deploy from each installation?

Please let everyone who answered here besides you know where it says "playing the guessing game" from open source is an OPSEC violation. None of us is giving up classified information or even any sort of information that is unit-specific. Why not print this all out and take it to your BN or BDE S-2 or CID if you're concerned?

I'm not trying to slam you; it just doesn't seem right to get wound up over something that is open source, and has been for years. Military analysts play the same guessing game through open source. You have valid concerns, but you might want to notch them down a couple.

Have a good day.

Answer 3

Definitely Fort Hood, Texas... It is a Rapid Mobilization Post. If everybody on the post was stateside you would have roughly 40,000 soldiers there... thats just soldiers not including wives/husbands and children. They also have 4th ID and 1st Cav who are always switching up in Iraq, plus 13th COSCOM with a good 15,000 troops a year over in Iraq.

Answer 4

This is great.

Means yall are passing information to people you dont know about how many troops from certain areas are over there. Why dont you just top it off and give names and social security numbers.

Either these people are not in the military and are just performing the guessing game or they need to be spun up on what OPSEC is...

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Probably Ft. Bragg It is one of the largest military bases

Answer 7

ft. bliss with 900 troops

Answer 8

Fort Stewart in GA they are always gone! one of the first to go!!

Answer 9

probably fort Stewart b/c they are infantry. that's where me and my husband are and they are about to deploy.