As of July 31, 2008 there are 538,128 men and women serving in the US Army.
See the link below for further detail on other branches and total military numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_United_States#Personnel_in_each_service
There are approximately 522,388 Active Duty Army Soldiers currently serving in today's Army defending and serving our nation by land, sea and air.
just shy of 3,000,000 people (about 1.5 on active duty, and 1.5 on reserve)
The population of the United States was approximately 305,689,000.
Slightly less 3 million spread between active and reserves. The US military hires less than 0.9% of the population but accounts for 23% of our federal spending. This number represents the entire...