The staffing of the FW depends a lot on why they are there.
If they are simply personnel who, for one reason or another, could not be assigned to a team by the time of the war, then there will be no particular rhyme or reason to their composition. You might have narrow specialists frozen together with the broadest of generalists.
If the FW is a deliberate reserve, then it is likely that they are all generalists. Why? Because each member of the FW is "backing up" some other number of Morrow teamers - 12.5 if we use CG Seattle as a scale. If I have a Recon FW member who is going to be asked to fill in for any of 12 or 13 different Recon guys, I need that person to be adaptable and versatile and strong in all the basic skills of Recon so that they can cover for anyone. If they are a dedicated specialist then they only really help me if (a) they are replacing the only other guy in the entire Project with the same specialty or if (b) by sheer blind luck they are a specialist in something that is now vital but previously thought unnecessary.
Imagine if a pro football team could only have 1 backup for each of offense and defense, and that all of the starters are equally likely to be injured. I don't know who is going to get injured, and I can do some shifting around, but ultimately I need each of those two guys to be able to handle a lot of the jobs on the team.
I would also expect that if possible, contents of each "team" will be diverse so as to spread resources around. If this is so, then the make up of the entire Frozen Watch will mirror the spread of the Project - perhaps 8% Science, 11% MARS, 25% Recon, and 56% Specialty (based on the non-Command personnel in CG Seattle). For the CG Seattle FW detachment, that would likely be 3 members of Specialty teams, 2 Recon teamers, and either a Science or MARS teamer, but the small size of the detachment would mean that there are limits to how well they can support the entire skill set of the CG.
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