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Major Installations
Army
Yakima Firing Center
Fort Lewis
Navy & Marine
Corps
Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard
Naval Underwater
Warfare Engineering Station
Whidbey Island
Naval Air Station
Naval Strategic
Weapon Fac Pac
Bangor Naval
Submarine Base
Air Force
Fairchild AFB
McChord AFB
Coast Guard
Thirteenth Coast
Guard District
Group Port
Angeles
Group Seattle
Marine Safety
Office Puget Sound
Air Station Port
Angeles
National
MotorLifeboat School
Vessel Traffic
Puget Sound
National Guard
Maj. Gen. Timothy
J. Lowenberg, Adjutant General
Lt. Col. Richard
Patterson, Public Affairs Officer
(253) 512-8481
Personnel Totals
Army 17,367
Navy & Marine
Corps 7,751
Air Force 7,280
Coast Guard 2,112
Active Duty Military
32,398
Reserve and National
Guard 31,105
Total Personnel
65,615
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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