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.
>>>Got this from a fellow FReeper quite some time ago. Here is what klintoon cut....
Just wondering if you have numbers on Bush administration's attempts to reverse those numbers. Have the number of active duty pesonnel and reserves increased since he took office?
Not to mention that by the end of clinton's reign of terror the Navy had TWO, count 'em, TWO fleet oilers in the ENTIRE NAVY.
The reason that the Cole got blown up was that it was in Yemen to refuel. That ship and crew should have NEVER been put in that position! When I was in the Navy we refueled AT SEA, and AT NIGHT. We had THREE fleet oilers for JUST ONE TASK FORCE. We only refueled in port if it was either our port, or the port of a very friendly ally.
We didn't even refuel in Mazatlan, Mexico. We met an oiler well offshore.