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Re: [RC] News from Louisiana - VERY OT - Kristen A Fisher

US Army stats: There are 1,012,000 soldiers on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard. Of them, 261,000 are deployed overseas in 120 countries. Iraq accounts for 103,000 soldiers, or 10.2 percent of the Army. If you add in Afghanistan (15,000) and the support troops in Kuwait (10,000) you still only have 12.6 percent.

So where are the rest? 751,000 (74.2 percent) are in the U.S. About half are active duty, and half Guard and Reserve.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Paus
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] News from Louisiana - VERY OT

And there's another issue no one has talked about. How vulnerable are we to attack now? Where has homeland security been in all of this? Now half our military is on the other side of the world, a lot of them will be down south. That leaves a pretty big chunk of the US with no protection.

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