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So There are Just 9 Amendments in the Bill of Rights?
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
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.
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[deleted] misread your post.
Last edited by sgtclub; 12-17-2004 at 01:27 AM..
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