[ProudEagle]

Very well said. And I agree. Here's some food for thought... 709,000 regular active duty personnel 293,000 reserve troops 8 standing army divisions 20 air force and navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft 232 strategic bombers 13 strategic ballistic missle submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on 232 missles 500 ICBM's with 1,950 warheads 4 aircraft carriers and, 121 combat surface ships, plus all the support bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a naval force. Who owns this force of power? Is this country Russia?....No Red China?.....No Great Britain?.....No USA?......No Give up? Well don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global superpower because this country no longer exists. It has vanished. These are the military forces that have disappeared since the 1992 Presidential election. Sleep well America.

[Lumberjack]

These are the military forces that have disappeared since the 1992 Presidential election. Sleep well America

Howdy! Nice to see that somebody else is paying attention to the situation at hand.

I think this is something we (meaning the general population and our enemies abroad) are not supposed to notice. Show some pretty infrared footage, some neat-o pics of our guys in their kevlar with the SAW's, some F-16's and everything is hunky dory.

Where did you pull those stats from, BTW? Seems like that would be a good source of info for future threads.

Something's not right here, and the cheerleaders are too frenzied to notice that the home team is 5 players short of a full team and its only the first quarter of the game.

[TheHundred]

Didn't we start downsizing IN 1992?

Lemme see, I was in the Army and all the E5's & 6's with 15 years in the service were getting nervous about having to get real jobs and no that was 1991.