[CONFLICT] U.S. Foreign Deployments, 2035

United States Department of Defense,
The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia

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U.S. Armed Forces Foreign Deployments, 2035

 

USPACOM Commander General Kevin B. Schneider retired in early March, giving way to the successful nomination of former USPACFLT Commander ADM Scott H. Swift, who has served in the Pacific Command since 1981. In his first year as COMPAC, he has noted the major repositioning of the TDF forces under the direction of the Washington Accords has completed. As part of the deescalation with China, the TDF has made the following changes:

 

• The USS Wasp (LHD-1), Essex Expeditionary Strike Group and USS Essex (LHD-2), Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group, with the 11th MEU and 34th MEU, have transtioned to mainland American rotation, taking with them over 6,900 personnel.

• The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), with Carrier Air Wing Seven and DESRON-28, have transitioned to Keelung Naval Facility, near the Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area in the North of the nation.

• The 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team "Arctic Wolves," 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team "Warriors" and 25th Infantry Combat Aviation Brigade have transitioned to Japanese facilities, notably Okinawa and Sasebo.

 

In addition to the current force structure in Asia, four Decatur class destroyers have rotated in relieve the associated Arleigh Burke destroyers in Carrier Strike Group 2, at Yokosuka: the Dahlgren (DDG-2001), Goldsborough (DDG-2002), Alden (DDG-2016), and Welborn C. Wood (DDG-2009). The USS Semmes (DDG-2003) and Satterlee (DDG-2004) are due to join the strike group in the third quarter.

 

East Asia and Pacific
Country	Total	Army	Navy	USMC	USAF
Japan	45,827	3,429	25,099	11,200	6,099
South Korea	21,375	15,012	331	1020	5,012
Thailand	338	37	25	251	25
Taiwan	4,213	1099	2011	900	203
Singapore	930	10	900	2	18
Australia	768	203	502	10	53
other	1,018	99	683	198	38
Total	74,469	19,889	29,551	13,581	11,448

 

USCENTCOM Admiral Mark Fox has had a busy year. With the successful no fly zone over Iraq, the constituent units of Operation Eagle Strike have dispersed to various airbases across the Middle East to maintain a Rapid Response Capability specifically requested by the President, considering the situation inside Iran and Turkey. Security at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, has received a large boost, with the 39th Security Squadron receiving a contingent of Marine Force Recon - the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, deployed from 2nd Marine Division headquarters at MCB Camp Lejeune, NC, and consisting of over 1,500 elite Marine infantrymen.

In Kurdistan, the construction on McEnroe Airbase continues, with the 75th Regimental Special Troops Battalion (RSTB) providing modular security near the installation. In the mean time, the 332d Air Expeditionary Wing has utilized existing air facility space near Erbil, in order to begin providing security and training to Kurdish Air Force members. A small battery of MEADS, from the 334th TMD Brigade, as well as a battery of THAADs, compliments security there.

In Afghanistan, Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait, the force deployment remains static, with elements of the 380th, 386th, 438th, and 455th Air Expeditionary Wing providing on-demand crisis response. However, in the Persian Gulf, (CARSTRKGRU 1), led by the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), has transitioned back to PACOM's AOR in the Indian Ocean, leaving the USS Gerald Ford/CSG-12 and the USS Abraham Lincoln/CSG-10 on station near Bahrain Fleet Activities.

 

North Africa, Near East and South Asia
Country	Total	Army	Navy	USMC	USAF
Bahrain	5,423	203	3,099	1022	1099
Turkey	3,174	302	98	201	2,573
Qatar	756	402	6	109	239
United Arab Emirates	607	102	54	367	84
Saudi Arabia	2,645	109	0	632	1,904
Egypt	454	206	24	202	22
Kurdistan	2,522	1,022	0	201	1,299
Afganistan	1,947	502	43	500	902
other	869	57	40	702	70
Total	18,397	2,905	3,364	3,936	8,192

 

USAFRICOM has taken the classified deployment of three Wolfpacks of Virginia-class submarines. Requested by NAVEUR-NAVAF, Vice Admiral Christopher W. Grady, nine SSNs have transitioned to patrol the area around Camp Lemmonier, Dijibouti, ostensibly in response to the increased Chinese presence in Africa. As the top of the line U.S. assault submarine, the Virginia class are Block VII increment models, and are destined to sniff out Chinese and Russian intrustions into U.S. areas of interest in the region. In cooperation with CENTCOM, Wolfpack AFRIA, AFRIB, and AFRIC will patrol the Arabian Sea as part of Task Force 60.

SOCAFRICA has requested and received a NavSpecWep Unit, 10, to deploy for joint training with African allies, as needed. SEAL Team 10, part of Special Operations Command Forward—East (Special Operations Command and Control Element—Horn of Africa), is on station simply to invest in allied counter-insurgent and counter-piracy abilities.

 

Sub Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean
Country	Total	Army	Navy	USMC	USAF
British Indian Ocean Territory	707	0	509	0	198
South Africa	236	5	2	226	3
Cameroon	686	99	0	540	47
Djibouti	2,204	1,099	901	102	102
Gabon	2853	1903	0	937	13
other	990	902	31	6	51
Total	7676	4008	1443	1811	414

 

USEUCOM General Timothy Ray has received an ambitious order from the Secretary of Defense, requesting that SACEUR "play in the Russian backyard while nobody's home," in refernece to their overextended deployment to the Persian Gulf, and intended to test the response capability of an aging near-peer force. The following specific deployments have been authorized in response to the Iranian commitment, which is seen by many as a rebuff to years of Russian - American friendly tolerance, and notated as part of "continuing readiness efforts with NATO allies and partners":

 

• The redeployment of 12 F-22Cs from the 95th Fighter Squadron, out of Tyndall AFB, Florida, to their former Air Policing Response Station, based in Baku Kala Air Base, Azerbaijan, with an additional 6 F-22A and 2 E-2Ds from Naples AFB, Italy.

• The 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command, currently based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, has been given deployment orders to NATO-interoperable Ämari Air Base, Estonia. With four batteries of one MEAD/PAC-3 MSE interceptor, the deployment is designed to secure theater-level airspace over Estonia "in theory."

• The U.S. 6th Fleet has authorized a Baltic Sea Patrol of the USS Abel P. Upshur (DDG-2007) and USS Dallas (DDG-2012) to the Port of Liepaja, Latvia, for a six month "routine deployment," including a pair of EV-22 AWACS tiltrotors in on-ship hanger space.

• SACEUR has authorized the redeployment of 4,000 members of the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Strykers), 34th Infantry Division, to joint-base Starachowice, Lesser Poland, including the 1st Squadron, 94th Cavalry Regiment (Armored Recon), 1st Battalion, 145th Armor Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, and 334th Brigade Engineer Battalion. The base has welcomed the deployment as part of Operation Anakonda 2035, ostensibly.

• The USS Thomas Jefferson (CVN-81), the newest and most advanced Gerald-Ford class carrier, has deployed for an extended patrol of the Baltic Sea, with included Carrier Strike Group 2, DESRON-22, and CVW-8. CVN-81 will remain on station for a period of six months, stopping at friendly ports in Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as allowed.

• The U.S. 7th Fleet has supplied additional vessels to the 6th for a stepped-up Freedom of Navigation presence in the Black Sea, owing to the 1936 Montreux Convention limiting vessels of outside states to 21 consecutive days in the Black Sea. Involved ships will be: USS Abel P. Upshur (DDG-2007), Monroe (DDG-89), Coates (DDG-112), Riley (FFG-91), and Leslie L.B. Knox (FFG-92), rotating for six months.

 

Europe - East and West
Country	Total	Army	Navy	USMC	USAF
Germany	33,690	19,238	501	1,009	12,942
Italy	14,381	6,393	2,993	93	4,902
United Kingdom	5,452	191	254	54	4,953
Spain	1,584	26	1,099	54	405
Poland	12,103	9,102	0	1002	1,999
Belgium	1,307	598	199	8	502
Portugal	466	5	52	7	402
Greece	532	8	502	0	22
Netherlands	362	130	30	5	197
other	6,184	597	397	4900	290
Total	76,061	36,288	6,027	7,132	26,614

 

USSOUTHCOM has, itself, forgotten it existed.

 

The Americas (non-mainland)
Country	Total	Army	Navy	USMC	USAF
Cuba	668	143	502	23	0
Honduras	395	235	3	1	156
Greenland	145	0	0	0	145
Canada	133	8	42	2	81
other	381	163	139	14	65
Total	1,722	549	686	40	447