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.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America estimates that some 2.8 million have served in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, but at most only 15 percent of the U.S.' total personnel were deployed for those conflicts and so, unlike VA's data, does not cover the full size of the wartime military.