Major Installations

Air Force

• Mountain Home AFB

National Guard

MG John F. Kane, Adjutant General

Lt. Col. James Ball, Public Affairs Officer

(208) 422-5268

Personnel Totals

Army 40

Navy & Marine Corps 76

Air Force 4,210

Active Duty Military 4,326

Reserve and National Guard 7,270

Total Personnel 11,596

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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