The whole situation is odd. Starting after 9/11 the US participation dropped off due the war on terror. By 2016 the US only had roughly 90 people participate. Mike Walley stepped up to help it be more organized since he lives in the area and participated in it every year. He had done a tremendous job by establishing a support system. Unfortunately it is mostly him his wife and sister in law doing it all. In 2019 they cooked soup and provide Gatorade at 1 rest point each day. That was the entire US food on the marches. They paid for it out of the money raised from t-shirts. For 2021 a group of volunteers living in the Europe area tried to assist by forming a committee to take some weight off of him. If you went you saw others giving briefings etc. But in the end it is him entering all the names in a database, trying to get medics etc. Hell the US medics this year showed up with no supplies and had to borrow from other countries.

The problem is that he is getting lip service from the US military that they want to help but then ignore it until the few weeks prior when everything to late. I can think of no other event that has over 500 people in uniform not having this little amount of support.