Major Installations

Army

Holston Army Ammo Plant

Milan Army Ammo Plant

Navy & Marine Corps

Memphis Naval Air Station

Millington Naval Hospital

Air Force

Arnold AFB

Coast Guard

Marine Safety Office Memphis

National Guard

MG Jackie D. Wood, Adjutant General

Randy Harris, Public Affairs Officer

(615) 313-0633

Personnel Totals

Army 378

Navy & Marine Corps 1,800

Air Force 501

Coast Guard 187

Active Duty Military 2,679

Reserve and National Guard 27,953

Total Personnel 30,819

U.S. Military Facts and Figures

Personnel

• 1.4 million men and women on active duty
• 672,000 civilians
• 1.35 million volunteers serving in the Guard and Reserve
• Support 1.8 million retirees and families that are receiving benefits
• 35,000 Coast Guard men and women on active duty
• 6,315 Coast Guard civilians
• 8,370 members serving in the Coast Guard Selected Reserve
• 32,000 volunteers serving in the Coast Guard Auxiliary
• 32,714 Coast Guard retirees and their families that are receiving benefits

Quality

• 96 percent of our employees have high school diplomas versus 87 percent of the national work force
• 6.3 percent of our troops have masters degrees versus 5.7 percent of the national work force

Infrastructure

• Personnel are located at about 600 fixed facilities around the world
• More than 40,000 properties amounting 18 million acres of land
• These include 250 major installations

Worldwide Presence

• Personnel located in more than 130 countries
• Some 247,000 troops and civilians are overseas both afloat and ashore

Activities On any given day, the U.S. military…

• Maintains 12,000 miles of waterways
• Operates 24 percent of the nation’s hydropower capacity
• Manages 225 schools
• Provides day care for 200,000 children (world’s largest day care provider)
• Saves 10 lives at sea
• Confiscates 306 pounds of cocaine and 169 pounds of marijuana from drug smugglers

Budget

• Annual budget is approximately $280 billion
• About a half of that goes for salaries
• One quarter for operating and maintaining our force, from bullets to butter
• One sixth to buying materiel: everything from tanks to planes
• Most of the last sixth to research and development
• Annual Coast Guard budget is approximately $4.4 billion

Increase in Deployments

Although the end of the cold war implied a less dangerous world, this has not been the case. American operational commitments since 1990 have made us busier than ever:

• There have been 99 major commitments of Americans in uniform, both active and Reserve to virtually every corner of the globe
• Army deployments have increased 300 percent in the past 10 years
• The number of deployed Navy ships on any given day has increased 52 percent in the last six years
• Since 1986, the number of Air Force deployments have quadrupled
• On the domestic front, in the previous five years, we responded to some 300 disasters, more than 600 National Guard commitments and almost 10,000 requests from law enforcement agencies
• The Coast Guard deployed training teams to help more than 50 nations develop their navies/coast guards

Decrease in Resources

• The number of soldiers and civilians in the Army has been reduced by 39 percent
• The number of ships in the Navy fell by 30 percent
• Air Force lost one-third of its people
• Coast Guard personnel strength is the same as it was in 1967 — but its missions have expanded

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