[Targan]

Will it be 43,000 people dropped off in Norfolk anyway? I can't remember off-hand whether that figure is the total shipped out of Bremerhaven (I'm pretty sure it is) or the total number that arrives at Norfolk. Somewhere in canon I'm pretty sure it says that many thousands of the TF34 troops are diverted to the Middle East theater as reinforcements. Also there would probably be small sub-convoys sent immediately out from Bremerhaven to bring reinforcements to some of the MILGOV enclaves up and down the east coast of the US.

Another subgroup of the returning troops that need to be considered are those who wish to remain as soldiers fighting for the US, but want to do it under the control of CIVGOV. Admittedly, most troops serving overseas would have had very little accurate information about the MILGOV-CIVGOV split. More information would be available once they got back to the US but it would be heavily skewed by MILGOV propaganda. Still, some service men and women would have deeply held ideological or political reasons for wanting to defect to CIVGOV. No doubt MILGOV authorities in Norfolk would have programs in place to dissuade returning troops from taking such a course.