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Originally posted by thunderous_funker: That can't be right. One statistic I'm fairly certain of, however, is that 1/3 of the US troops in Iraq are reservists. That could lead to it's own kind of crisis. I've heard that some reservists (not necessarily in the Gulf, but in general) have seen deployments of over a year 
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Hmmm I found this on CNN,
"Deployment is now at 250,000, but only the Army's 3rd Infantry Division is a heavy fighting force, and just 150,000 of the total are ground-combat troops.
Chairman Myers insisted last week that the U.S. had deployed "just the right forces." Certainly those forces had a lot to do, from taking Baghdad to searching for Saddam's bio-chem weapons to delivering water and food to civilians. An additional 2,000 soldiers reach the war theater each day, and the total will rise to 340,000 in the weeks ahead. "
Its going to be interesting to see how many troops it is going to take to maintain the peace when the war ends.