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To: gwilhelm56

We have nowhere near two million Soldiers and Marines. By the end of this administration, we’ll have to rent the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to guard Arlington.


23 posted on 01/09/2010 11:47:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin: What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; gwilhelm56
"We have nowhere near two million Soldiers and Marines."

This was an interesting stat, so I just had to look it up.

Looks like we're about 3/4 million active ground force (Army/Marines.) Total active military force of around 1.4 million. "Fit for duty" population of about 120 million.

46 posted on 01/10/2010 3:27:43 AM PST by Enosh (†)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...We have nowhere near two million Soldiers and Marines..."

True enough today, but the US mobilized 4 million men over the course of WWII.

Our error was letting Canada fight Nazis for two years before we entered, and recognizing the Vichy-French (Nazis) instead of DeGaulle's Free-France-in-Britain-exile.

IOW, the Ron Paul foreign policy—if you can call that "a policy".

:-\

51 posted on 01/10/2010 4:40:17 AM PST by Does so (ObamaCare...I pay for medical-marijuana claims by millions of Americans?)
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