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To: Blood of Tyrants
Some say the military needs a permanent increase in troops.

You mean to make up for the cutting the military IN HALF during the Clinton days...

3 posted on 07/07/2004 11:55:43 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Got this from a fellow FReeper quite some time ago. Here is what klintoon cut....

709,000 regular (active duty) personnel.

293,000 reserve troops.

Eight standing army divisions.

20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft and 232 strategic bombers.

19 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missiles.

500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads.

Four Aircraft Carriers and 121 surface combat ships and submarines plus all the support bases, shipyars and logistical assets needed to sustain such a Naval force.


4 posted on 07/07/2004 11:58:54 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
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