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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (521075)	11/9/2012 7:17:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793957

Altogether, 77,917 military personnel are located in Europe, 141 in the former Soviet Union, 47,236 in East Asia and the Pacific, 3,362 in North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia, 1,355 in sub-Saharan Africa and 1,941 in the Western Hemisphere excluding the United States itself. As of 31 December 2009, a total of 1,137,568 personnel were on active duty within the United States and its territories (including 84,461 afloat). [24] The vast majority, 941,629 of them, were stationed at various bases within the Contiguous United States. There were an additional 37,245 in Hawaii and 20,450 in Alaska. 84,461 were at sea, 2,972 in Guam, and 179 in Puerto Rico. TOTAL BUDGET? ABOUT 750 BILLION. ANOTHER 250 BILLION ON VARIOUS SUPPORT SERVICES WIKIPEDIA