Vladimir Putin................

[o_jinx]

Originally Posted by |404|Innoc-TPF-

Jinx, you say we're stretched thin and I see the mainstream media saying the same thing. IIRC we have something like 133,000 troops there as opposed to the total number of active duty troops being like 1.2 million. Does that sound stretched thin?

Actually, yeah. Here's a report on the issue from those left-wingers at FOX News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,240821,00.html

Currently, about 507,000 soldiers are on active duty in the U.S Army and 180,000 Marines are in active service. The U.S. military has 520,000 National Guard and reservists. According to reports, all but 90,000 of these part-time soldiers have been mobilized at least once since Sept. 11, 2001, and current guidelines say they cannot be redeployed yet.

So when you say "1.2 million" you have to remember that a big chunk of those are reserve and national guard. Plus the fact that we have military bases in the US and all over the world that need manned.

[o_|404|innoc-tpf-]

Originally Posted by Jinx

So when you say "1.2 million" you have to remember that a big chunk of those are reserve and national guard. Plus the fact that we have military bases in the US and all over the world that need manned.

No, that's completely wrong Jinx and my number was off by almost 200K people.

You can find the report here
edit: near the bottom of page 5 is where I pulled the following numbers

There are 1,385,000 active duty amongst the 5 services
452,000 National Guard who are not in that number
374,000 Reverse that are not in either of the numbers
720,000 DOD civil service employees that are not part of any of the numbers above.

Do you still stand by your comment about being "stretched thin"?