35k is a lot.
Peak Iraq was 170k.
So, the US is at 25% of the deployment in Iraq .

Approximately 150,000 US soldiers were deployed in 2003. This number increased to its peak in 2007 of over 170,000 soldiers, three years after Bush claimed ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq on 1 May 2003.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html

So there are 17,500 American soldiers actively 'deployed' in the US?

35,000 boots on the ground 5 upvotes on Lemmy

And he's making sure that they aren't out long enough to actually get paid the benefits of it

He's ripping off his own goons

Title is worded in a way that suggests it’s unusual for the army to be deployed within own country borders.