Armed Forces Strength: 1945 (from US DoD)
Army:8,266,373
Navy:3,319,586
AAF:469,925
Total 12,055,884
I realize I got the WW2 numbers wrong. But the fact is our military is undermanned and under equipped. Placing the majority of Naval assets in Norfolk Virginia is insanity. Granted some bases needed closing, some ships needed to go. But Poppy's term had cuts and even deployment polices then destroyed a carrier. Next came Slick Willies cuts six years of them under a GOP congress. BTW we are still at 1996 ETS. Then came W who decided to cut yet more and of course Obama who is cutting yet more. All this time we are deploying into combat responding to every little flare up & had at least a two nations war going as well.
We can not keep up the pace with what we have something is going to have to give. We need to rescind at least half the cuts in all services to be reasonably functional.