How Many Active Service Members In The Us

The at-a-glance reference tables in this section illustrate the numbers of active duty, Reserve, and National Guard troops as well equally their demographics, including gender, race, location and more. Demographic data is useful to anyone wishing to learn more than nigh the military machine, or for anyone who needs quantitative data.

Terms

Agile duty service members commit to the military full time often as a career. Reservists support active duty by being set up and "in reserve" in case active duty troops are stretched sparse and more support is needed. Reservists are probable to have civilian jobs outside their Reserve commitments. National Guard members defend the homeland. National Guard units operate on a state levelpr. These "citizen soldiers" are mostly called to serve later on Reservists have been activated.

War machine Service Fellow member Data

A total of 1.four million agile duty; this number is 30.8 pct smaller than it was in 1990, when there were 2.1 active duty members.

Army (561,979)
Air Force (329,640)
Navy (323,139)
Marine Corps (202,612)
Coast Guard (41,327)

What about women and minorities?

Women at present comprise 14.4 percent (about 200,000) of the active duty force
Minorities contain 30 percent (nearly 425,100) of the agile duty force
(These percentages are significantly lower than 2008 information.)

What nigh their family condition?

Agile duty service members have more family unit members (1.9 one thousand thousand) than there are service members (i.4 meg). Approximately 56 percent are married:

lxx percent of officers
53 percent of enlisted personnel
7 percent are in dual-armed forces marriages
39 percent of active duty members who are married have children
5 percent are single parents
(The largest group of children is between birth and five years old, about 527,670.)

Where are they stationed?

The ten states with the highest agile duty military populations are:

California (159,380)
Virginia (127,981)
Texas (123,879)
North Carolina (116,114)
Georgia (74,235)
Washington (62,409)
Florida (57,558)
Hawaii (47,531)
Kentucky (45,568)
Colorado (36,998)

Reserve and National Guard Service Member Data

The Reserve and Guard Force consists of 857,261; the Reserve force is 29 percent smaller than it was in 1990, when there were almost one.2 million reservists.

What about women and minorities?

Women comprise virtually 18 per centum (153,071) the Reserve force.
Racial minorities incorporate 24 percent (206,161) of the Reserve force.

What most their family status?
These service members have more family members (1.6 million) than there are service members (857,261). Only under half, or 48 per centum, are married:

71 per centum of officers
44 percent of enlisted personnel
iii per centum are in dual-military marriages
34 percent of those who are married have children.
nine percent are single parents.
The largest group of children is between the ages of 12 and 18 years (225,937) and the side by side largest group is between the ages of vi and 11 years (224,085).

Where practise they come up from?

The 10 states with the highest numbers of Reserve and Guard troops are:

California (58,844)
Texas (55,971)
Florida (36,971)
Pennsylvania (32,494)
New York (thirty,353)
Georgia (29,964)
Ohio (28,455)
Virginia (25,841)
Illinois (25,417)
North Carolina (22,753)

Demographic Variable	Active Duty	Reserve and Guard

	MEMBERS

Full Number	i,417,370	857,261
Women	14.4%	17.9%
Minorities	30%	24.1%
Married	56.4%	48.2%
Dual-Military Marriages	6.7%	2.6%

	FAMILIES
Family Members	1,983,236	one,161,631
Spouses	725,877	413,295
Percent with Children	44.1%	43.ii%
Children historic period 0-5	42.3%	27.nine%
Percent Single Parents	5.4%	9.3%

2010 Department of Defense Military Demographics Table