U.S. Active Duty Roster Down 133,600 in Year
<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON —
The Pentagon says that the number of men and women on active duty fell to 1,717,664 in July, a decline of 133,600 from a year earlier.
The decline, announced Friday, reflects a continuing shrinkage of the military since the end of the Cold War. The Clinton Administration last week reaffirmed that it intends to cut the active-duty military to about 1.4 million by the end of 1999.
As recently as 1991, at the end of the Persian Gulf War, there were slightly more than 2 million people in uniform.
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