| No. 246-98 | ||
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| IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 18, 1998 | (703)697-5737(public/industry) |
The total numerical strength of the Armed Forces on Feb. 28, 1998 was 1,416,044. This is a decrease of 6,722 from Jan. 31, 1998 and a decrease of 34,305 from Feb. 28, 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 1997 was also 65,000 military personnel.
February 1998 strength figures for each Service with month-ago and year-ago figures for comparison are:
| 02/28/98 | 01/31/98 | Change from Prev. Month | ||||||||||||||||
| (Actual) | (Actual) | Amount | Percent | 02/28/97 | ||||||||||||||
| Total DoD | 1,416,044 | 1,422,766 | -6,722 | -0.47% | 1,450,349 | |||||||||||||
| Army | 483,308 | 488,002 | -4,694 | -0.96% | 485,674 | |||||||||||||
| Navy | 387,325 | 388,943 | -1,618 | -0.42% | 407,758 | |||||||||||||
| Marine Corps | 172,643 | 172,417 | 226 | 0.13% | 173,432 | |||||||||||||
| Air Force | 372,768 | 373,404 | -636 | -0.17% | 383,485 | |||||||||||||
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.