Most of what you do in the Navy Reserve is considered training. The basic Navy Reserve commitment involves training a minimum of one weekend a month (referred to as drilling) and two weeks a year (referred to as Annual Training) â or the equivalent of that.
The current 9,800 troops in Afghanistan is just a fraction of the U.S. forces stationed around the world. The graphic above shows other countries where the U.S. has a significant military presence. Itâs difficult to give a full picture of the number of troops serving overseas.
How many US troops are there stationed abroad? According to Wikipedia, there were about 369,000 US soldiers  deployed in more than 150 countries outside the United States, and  a total of more than 1.58 million military â¦personnel altogether as  of December 2010. (Sourced below)