Re: [RC] News from Louisiana - VERY OT - Kristen A Fisher
US Army stats: There are 1,012,000 soldiers on active duty, in the
Reserves, or in the National Guard. Of them, 261,000 are deployed overseas in
120 countries. Iraq accounts for 103,000 soldiers, or 10.2 percent of the
Army. If you add in Afghanistan (15,000) and the support troops in Kuwait
(10,000) you still only have 12.6 percent.
So where are the rest? 751,000 (74.2 percent) are in the U.S. About half
are active duty, and half Guard and Reserve.
And there's another issue no one has talked about. How vulnerable are we
to attack now? Where has homeland security been in all of this? Now half our
military is on the other side of the world, a lot of them will be down south.
That leaves a pretty big chunk of the US with no
protection.
