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As of early 2012, there were 2,309,880 men and women of all ranks serving in the US military and Coast Guard. There were 1,409,995 active duty members, plus 850,800 Reserves and National Guard.
1,426,713 personnel are currently on active duty and a further 1,259,000 in the seven reserve components. (Information from Wikipedia)
As of 2021, there are about 1.3 million active-duty soldiers in the U.S. Army. This number can fluctuate based on recruitment, deployments, and budget allocations.
There are curently around 1.4 million American active duty troops.
As of June 23, 2008, there are 57 active-duty woman serving as generals in the armed services, five of whom are lieutenant generals, according to the Pentagon. On that date, Lt. Gen. Ann Dunwoody was nominated to the rank of general. If approved by the Senate, she will be the first woman in the U.S. military to wear four stars.
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There are about 200,000 US Marines on active duty.
About 200,000 Marines are on active duty in 2010.
In 1970 there were approximately 249000 Marines serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. This was the highest number of Marines since the end of World War II. Below is a breakdown of the Marine Corps personnel numbers in 1970: Active Duty: 237000 Active Reserve: 11000 Inactive Reserve: 1000The Marine Corps has continued to grow since then and as of 2019 there were over 186000 active duty Marines and 38500 reserve Marines.
According to the article at http://www.slate.com/id/2139847/sidebar/2140026/, there are 82 on active duty, and 400 retired.
yes they still do there are many active paratroopers on active duty still to this day.
When WWII began the total Marine Corps strength was about 65,881 officers and enlisted on active duty, and 18,279 of them were already on duty worldwide on overseas assignments.
There are thousands of US Army Colonels and Lt. Colonels. Between the two, on active duty alone, there are probably close to 10,000. There could be up to 50 at one base depending on the size of the base. There are nearly 50 Major Generals in the Army (3-star), which are close to .5% of officers, or .0007% of the Army. Full Colonels make up about 5% of the active duty Army officers (1% of total Army soldiers). Lt. Colonels make up about 13% of the active duty Army officers (3% of total Army soldiers). In addition, as a full Colonel, you are forced to retire at 30 years of commissioned service. My father, started as a Private, went to OCS, became commissioned as a 2LT and made it to Colonel within the normal 22 years of being commissioned. He was forced to retire at 30 years of commissioned service, however, he did have a total of 32 years since he was enlisted prior to his commissioning. While these numbers serve as a general guideline, they will change over time do to normal fluctuations in the needs of our military, wartime, peacetime, etc.
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It is unlikely to change much between 2010 and 2016 and the current active duty numbers of about 200,000 provides adequate manpower to support three active duty Infantry Divisions, three Marine Air wings and such other support troops as are required to perform their current mission.