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To: unclewest who wrote (304049)	5/6/2009 9:25:29 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793790

Soon the Pentagon will have 1,220,000 civilian employees. Meanwhile the US Army has 550,000 soldiers. I was looking at some data from 1999. DOD had 1.4 million in uniform and 700K in civies.

To: unclewest who wrote (304049)	5/7/2009 1:28:23 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793790

What do all the more than 2 to 1 civilians do for the DOD? We have fewer men/women, fewer pieces of equipment, we have computers that were supposed to cut the paperwork by maybe 5 to 1.... How does the Pentagon justify these numbers?