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To: BigBull who wrote (61719)	12/14/2002 1:47:23 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>INFORMATION HAS DIMINISHED In its latest assessment, the military Web site GlobalSecurity.Org says information has diminished to the point where there is now too little data for a highly reliable profile of current U.S. deployments. It reckons there are about 44,000 personnel -- of which one quarter are army and the rest sailors and airmen -- and 370 combat aircraft, including European Command forces in Turkey. This compares with averages over recent years of 20,000 to 25,000 troops and some 200 aircraft, it says. In a caveat to its "order of battle" assessment, GlobalSecurity.Org says there are "evidently significant gaps in unit identifications, as well as non-trivial uncertainties as to numbers of specific types of aircraft." "The presence of significant numbers of civilian contractor personnel at various facilities in the region further complicates accounting for total personnel numbers." << globalsecurity.org