II MEF

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air craft loss and pilot loss would be heavy just for the fact of parts and resupply. that will down more planes than combat loss. The Marines in the most part dont make new units just fill the ones they have. before the OIF/OEF we had 178K Marines we only added 3 Battalions But 24 K Marines! This is because most units were at 70 Percent or in a down cycle. So I expect the first 50K guys recalled in the twilight war would just fill units already on the books. on a pure numbers game the USMC Makes about 50K Marines a year to fill the ranks of Marines leaving. We have 200K Marines on Inactive reserve. This means I can in the twilight war have 100K killed and still have the same units and they would be at 100 percent without a bootcamp or OCS class. adding 100K for 96 and 97 this gives alot of options.

Start war with 180K.
Add 200K inactive reserve
Add 100K from bootcamp and OCS (peace time recruitment and training)

This is alot of Marines!