Note that I am neither for nor against the whole ground forces/marine/whatever view, in fact I try to do my best to leave it as deliberately vague in my own games as they have in Trekdom (which takes some work mind you). I think however, that the technological resources of the 24th century are more than capable of landing ground units generally however. I assume that the ground pounders use troop transports that are specially designed to enable ground landings, dropships or mass transporters (the emergency transporters on the original Enterprise had I think 22-pads, just beef them up).
Should we ignore Voyager's constant refrain to "Expand the buffers"? This was what allowed them to pretty much empty the vessel on several occasions. Note that this is not a snide comment at all, Typhonis, and could simply be countered by saying that it is dangerous and weaker versus interference. Also note, that ignoring this horrifically empowering aspect of Federation technology is exactly what I intend to do. ("You want to do what?", "I don't care if Harry Kim could do it..." and "That was merely a dramatization based on the far less interesting voyage of Captain Janeway written by the Doctor." are going to be my stock responses)
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth