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| No. 052-99 | ||
| (703)695-0192(media) | ||
| IMMEDIATE RELEASE | February 8, 1999 | (703)697-5737(public/industry) |
The total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on Dec. 31, 1998 was 1,381,034. This is a decrease of 8,524 from Nov. 30, 1998 and a decrease of 37,739 from Dec. 31, 1997.
These figures represent full-time military personnel comprising both regular and reserves on active duty and officer candidates, including cadets at the three military academies.
Excluded from these figures are approximately 65,000 full-time military personnel who are paid from other than active duty military personnel appropriations. This group is funded from appropriations for reserve components and Corps of Engineers civil functions. A comparable figure for Fiscal Year 1998 was also 65,000 military personnel.
December 1998 strength figures for each Service with month-ago and year-ago figures for comparison are:
| 12/31/98 | 11/30/98 | Change from | Previous Month | 12/31/97 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total DoD | 1,381,034 | 1,389,558 | -8,524 | -0.61 |
1,418,773 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Army | 474,217 | 478,034 |
-3,817 | -0.80 |
485,088 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Navy | 371,762 | 374,484 | -2,722 | -0.73 | 387,774 |
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| Marine Corps | 171,265 | 172,617 | -1,352 | -0.78 | 171,637 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 363,790 | 364,423 |
-633 |
-0.17 |
374,274 | |||||||||||||||||||
The active duty personnel strength data provided does not include Selected Reserve strength ordered to active duty by the President under Title 10, United States Code 12304.
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