slugshooter Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Posted the link for this also cause I know the table won't cut and paste right. The largest single drop in Army personnel was in 1972 when almost 300,000 soldiers were downsized or whatever, who was President then, Nixon. Plus, troop strengths have been going down since then until 2001 when they started going back up, wish there was info from the last 2 years to see where we are at now. http://www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/military/ms9.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 Re: Military numbers from 1950-2002. Our total troop numbers were cut by around a hal a million alltogether under Clinton. Substantial drops under Nixon are self explanatory when you figure Viet Nam and the draft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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