Major Installations
Army
- Ft. Sill
- McAlester Army Ammo Plant
Navy & Marine Corps
Air Force
- Altus AFB
- Vance AFB
- Tinker AFB
Coast Guard
- U.S. Coast Guard Institute
National Guard
Maj. Gen. Stephen P. Cortright, Adjutant
General
Lt. Col. Pat Scully, Public Affairs Officer
(405) 228-5212
Personnel Totals
Army 14,889
Navy & Marine Corps 841
Air Force 9,504
Coast Guard 51
Active Duty Military 25,234
Reserve and National Guard 21,940
Total Personnel 47,174
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 nations hydropower capacity
- Manages 225
schools
- Provides day
care for 200,000 children (worlds 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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