How many troops are in the us army?  Do we have enough for any other wars without a draft?
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The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces that has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. As of fiscal year 2004 (FY04), it consisted of 485,500 soldiers (including 71,400 women) on active duty and 591,000 in reserve (325,000 in the Army National Guard (ARNG) and 246,000 in the United States Army Reserve (USAR)). The Continental Army was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the United States, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War. Congress created the United States Army on June 3, 1784 after the end of the American Revolutionary War, to replace the disbanded Continental Army. However, the US Army considers itself to be an evolution of the Continental Army, and thus dates its inception from the origins of the Continental Army.
784585
No. Plenty of volunteers are available. Not to mention a draft outside of invasion or imminent danger would tear the country to shreds.
894729
Our military forces are fine at the moment.  Spread out but enough to be fine.  We probably couldn't invade  Iran or something like that because it will stretch us too thin.  No president would enact a draft because it would make him the least popular president in history and the people wouldn't take it.  Besides, if we wanted more batallions all we would have to do is say so and we could isntantly create and fill another one.  As one other person said, it's all about the money.  They don't want to create a large army because it costs money and so they have to limit the size.
625082
More soldiers or better trained soldiers
724490
There have been several drafts, with several different wars.\n\nThe last draft ended in 1973 when Nixon was president. He ended the draft for the Vietnam war.
126255
They're not bringing back the draft.  Our military works best with volunteers.  If you want to be there, you will fight better.  Drafts sent boys to do a man's job.
940914
Maybe there should be an draft just so the same people aren't constantly deploying and redeploying?  I don't think it necessarily means that the US has plans to go into other countries, although, I am sure that they need to at this point.
522093
Why would there need to be a draft? Heck, one of those idiot communist Democrat congressman, Dingel or Conyers, wrote a bill to reinstate the draft, and only got 2 votes in support.\n\nHaving a bunch of soft, ignorant panty-waists forced into the military harms military effectiveness. Who needs them? Look at all the soft, ignorant panty-waists that were in the military from 1969-75, who not only lost us the war, but are now all weepy and whiny about joining the military.
785255
If the question is how many troops are there in Iraq? The answer would be that there are currently about 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq. If you are asking about the American military then the answer is, there are about 2,500,000 people serving in the Armed Forces in one capacity or another, not counting civilians working for the military services or military contractors supplying the services.
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We had something along those lines when Selective Service was geared up for Vietnam.  There were too many people, however, so a lottery was established.  Consider the numbers for the US, between ages of 15-64 there are 100 million males, narrowing that by the Census Bureau, there are about 21 million Americans between 20-24, of which there are just shy of 11 million males.\n\nThat's one awful big army.  Sorry, but we don't need it and the rest of the world wouldn't stand for it.  Thanks for thinking though, because the military service during WWI and WWII was one of the great standardizing forces in American education and culture at the time.
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This is from the Selective Service Website:  "Contrary to popular belief, "only sons," "the last son to carry the family name," and "sole surviving sons" must register and they can be drafted."\n\nHowever... I will say with almost complete coviction that there will NEVER BE ANOTHER DRAFT.\n\nThe simple answer to your question is "no", but not because of the reasons these people are stating.  The reason a single male child cannot be drafted is because THERE IS NO DRAFT.  So... NOBODY can be drafted.\n\nIn every draft that the United States has ever implented, there has never been such a provision (exemption due to "only son" status.  This is pure urban legend.\n\nNow... do YOU have to worry about being drafted?  The answer is NO.  There are people with political motivations who are trying their best to scare the 18-22 year-old-male crowd with this nonsense.  But it just ain't going to happen.  For lots of reasons.  Most importantly, because the Pentagon DOESN'T WANT a draft.  They would much rather enlist volunteers, even if they have to offer better pay and benefits.  The Army learned its lesson about conscription in Vietnam.   The war in Iraq is already unpopular, can you imagine the reaction if there were actually people serving over there who didn't volunteer for it?\n\nSecondly, if you have questions, just check out the Selective Service website (www.sss.gov).\n\nThirdly, the Army is currently exceeding its recruiting goals.\n\nSo... my advice...  Register with Selective Service (it is the law, you know), and stop worrying.   It is difficult to imagine any scenario in which millions of unwilling young Americans would need to be pressed into service.  Those days are gone, replaced by America's massive technological war machine.  Barring an invasion of California by China (or somebody), I can't see a draft ever being re-instated.
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A troop is the equivalent unit to the infantry company, 60–250 men, 2–8 platoons.\n\nArmy group 100,000 + 2+ Armies \nArmy 50,000-60,000+ 2+ Corps\nCorps 30,000-50,000 2+ Divisions \nDivision 10,000–20,000 2-4 Brigades or Regiments \nBrigade 3000–5000 2+ Regiments or 3–6 Battalions \nRegiment 3–4 Battalions \nBattalion 300–1000 2-6 companies \nCompany, or Artillery Battery 60–250 2–8 platoons \nplatoon  25–40 2+ squads\nsquad 8–12
173460
Maybe we should start the draft before we start a THIRD WAR!  Maybe we can just call up the cub scouts, since everybody is already deployed.
967967
Only Charles Rangel wants a draft. When our military leaders want 1, it will be worth talking about.
362550
No. We are spread pretty thin right now. How many wars or peace keeping missions do you think that we can handle at one time? Let us try to to do all we can to try to prevent any more wars with other nations. We need to clean up our messes in Afghanistan and Iraq before we can get involved with another country.
825358
Don't believe the hype. There is not going to be a draft. There is only one nutjob who wants it,and thats Democrat Charlie Rangel. The dems just took back the senate,and the house,and they're not going to screw it up by reinstating the draft,and if for some reason they decided to commit political suicide, Bush would still veto it. It's just one nut trying to stir things up,don't worry about it.
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Charlie really thinks re-instituting the draft will deter our decisions to go to war, in that children of the senate and house could be drafted.\n\nThat's somewhat of a reach.\n\nI don't want to chance filling our army with people who don't want to join.  Not a good idea right now.  Campus riots would be everywhere.\n\nCan't answer your other questions right now, you did your research and are way ahead of me.