Deployed US

From Wikipedia:
"United States military deployments"

The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with over 160,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories and an additional 70,000 deployed in various contingency operations. US troops are spread across the globe: approximately 66,000 are stationed in Europe; approximately 80,000 in East Asia and the Pacific region; over 5,000 in North Africa, Southwestern and South Asia; over 1,700 in the Americas; less than 400 in Sub-Saharan Africa; and less than 100 in states of the former Soviet Union. Of those in Europe, most of the military personnel are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to challenge the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II. US personnel are seeing active combat in Afghanistan. Others are deployed as part of several peacekeeping missions, military attachés, or are part of embassy and consulate security. The following are countries, listed by region, in which US military personnel are deployed. The numbers are based on the most recent United States Department of Defense statistics as of December 31, 2014. hese numbers do not include any military or civilian contractors or dependents. Countries with fewer than 100 US personnel deployed are omitted.

Key to the above map: Countries in which the US military had a presence in 2013. This map shows the current deployments of the US military. Most of the deployments on this map that are less than 100 troops are usually less than fifty military personnel, just for public knowledge. The lightest blue means less than a hundred US troops; the aqua teal mix, which is a little brighter, means more than a hundred troops; and the darkest blue on map means more than 1,000 troops. This map has those listed as part of Overseas Contingency Operation Deployments integrated in, while military dependents and civilian personnel are omitted


Combat Zones:
Afghanistan: 6,839
Iraq: 3,100

Support Zones:
Kuwait: 11,865
Bahrain: 3,373
Turkey: 1,518
Qatar: 610
Saudi Arabia: 322
United Arab Emirates: 321
Egypt: 280
South Africa: 221
Japan: 49,396
South Korea: 28,500
British Indian Ocean Territory: 546
Thailand: 228
Kyrgyzstan: 225
Singapore: 188
Australia: 182
Germany: 38,491
Italy: 11,354
United Kingdom: 9,124
Spain: 2,170
Belgium: 1,216
Portugal: 617
Greece: 396
Netherlands: 375
Cuba: 727
Honduras: 378
Greenland: 141
Canada: 132

The United States:   There are 1,148,750 personnel on active duty in the United States and its territories

- CONUS: 1,072,753
- Hawaii:  51,050
- Alaska: 19,295
- Guam: 5,501
- Puerto Rico: 147

^   Even though Memorial Day is to honor the men and women that served in the US military and either died while serving or afterwards (Veterans' Day is to honor the men and women who served or are serving in the US military and are still alive) it's important to show ordinary Americans the commitment the American soldier makes for them everyday. Today less than half of 1% of all Americans are serving or know someone serving in the US military. Before the Draft ended in 1973 and the US went to an all-volunteer military that percentage was over 50%. With that huge drop in percentages has come ordinary Americans ignorance that the military is fighting its longest wars in history (14 years so far) and that US troops are in 150 countries with most doing an average of 4-6 deployments. Before 1973 the US asked something of the majority of its male citizens while today the US asks very little of its male or female citizens with a handful working constantly around the country and the world to protect us all. ^

 

 

 

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