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Major Installations
Army
Tooele Army Depot
Dugway Proving
Ground
Air Force
Hill AFB
National Guard
MG James M.
Miller, Adjutant General
Lt. Col. Brian
Odekirk, Public Affairs Officer
(801) 523-4407
Personnel Totals
Army 331
Navy & Marine
Corps 148
Air Force 4,365
Active Duty Military
4,844
Reserve and National
Guard 13,583
Total Personnel
18,427
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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