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Originally posted by sgtclub
I suspect that those numbers and the current numbers are fairly close as a percentage of the population.
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I know I should STP, but Club -- the "permanent Army" (i.e. active duty) now numbers about 600,000 IIRC. Adding the other branches take the total well over a million. (Too lazy to look it up.)
So, your suggestion that the ratio of Army to Population is the same now as when the USA was in its infancy, is a suggestion that the combined population of the first thirteen states was less than 18,000 people (very roughly).
That's a bit low.
