2023 USAF & USSF Almanac: DOD Personnel

DOD TOTAL FORCE END STRENGTH

Staff Sgt. Benjamin Preston, 180th Fighter Wing crew chief, and Senior Airman Allison Garcia, a munitions specialist, stand next to an F-16 Fighting Falcon before morning training flights at Naval Air Station Key West, Fla., Nov. 3, 2022. **Staff Sgt. Kregg York/ANG**

(In thousands, as of Sept. 30, 2022)

Fiscal Year	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Active-Duty Military									_Enacted	_Requested
USAF	311	317	323	326	328	330	328	324	321	324
Army	491	475	476	476	484	481	487	465	452	452
Marine Corps	184	184	185	186	186	181	180	174	172	172
Navy	328	325	324	330	337	342	348	344	341	347
USSF							7	8	9	9
Full-time Guard and Reserve	76	76	75	79	83	87	90	90	91	92
Total	1,390	1,378	1,382	1,397	1,422	1,421	1,439	1,405	1,386	1,396

Selected Reserve
Air National Guard	106	106	106	107	107	107	109	108	108	108
AFRC	68	69	69	69	69	69	71	68	69	70
Army National Guard	350	342	344	335	336	336	338	329	325	325
Army Reserve	199	198	194	189	191	189	184	176	177	175
Marine Corps Reserve	39	38	39	38	38	36	35	33	33	34
Navy Reserve	57	58	58	59	60	59	58	55	56	57
Total	819	812	810	797	801	796	794	769	768	769

Appropriated-Fund Civilian Full-time Equivalents
DAF	166	167	167	170	172	170	173	175*	179	178
Army	206	195	191	189	190	251	250	186*	186	185
Navy/Marine Corps	199	204	206	209	218	220	205	212*	215	215
Defense Agencies	187	189	191	193	216	114	114	213*	213	217
Total	758	755	756	761	796	755	762	785*	793	795

Source: National Defense Budget Estimates for Fiscal Year 2024.

Airman 1st Class Lahjahniek Ramdene, 909th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 boom operator, refuels an F-35A from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, over the Pacific Ocean, May 23, 2023. **Senior Airman Yosselin Campos**

DOD ACTIVE DUTY BY ENLISTED/OFFICER AND SEX

(As of Sept. 30, 2022)

	DOD		DAF		Army		Marine Corps		Navy
		%		%		%		%		%
Cadet/Midshipman
Female	3,453	27.1	1,196	29.9	1,004	22.9	N/A	N/A	1,253	28.6
Male	9,305	72.9	2,807	70.1	3,375	77.1	N/A	N/A	3,123	71.4
Enlisted
Female	182,377	17.1	55,297	21	54,194	14.7	14,344	9.4	58,542	20.6
Male	885,290	83	208,183	79	313,391	85.3	138,742	90.6	224,974	79.4
Officer
Female	46,533	19.7	15,040	23.2	17,586	18.8	2,096	9.8	11,811	20.9
Male	190,109	80.3	49,901	76.8	76,075	81.2	19,395	90.2	44,738	79.1
Total Active Duty	1,317,067		332,424		465,625		174,577		344,441

Sources: Defense Manpower Data Center, Active Duty Military Personnel by Rank/Grade and Service; and Table of Active Duty Females by Rank/Grade and Service

Tech. Sgt. Shelby Duncan, 33rd Rescue Squadron special missions aviator, conducts pre flight inspections on a GAU-18 .50 caliber weapon system at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 29, 2023. **Senior Airman Jessi Roth**

DOD MILITARY DEMOGRAPHICS BY SERVICE

(As of Sept. 30, 2022)

	DOD		Air Force		Space Force		Army		Marine Corps		Navy
Total	1,335,848		328,887		1,643		482,416		179,678		343,223
Highest Educational Achievement		%				%		%		%		%
No High School Diploma or GED	1,251	0.1	69	0	0	0	502	0.1	25	0	655	0.2
High School Diploma/GED or Some College	888,300	66.5	170,751	51.9	347	21.1	328,609	68.1	150,993	84	237,600	69.2
Associate Degree	114,941	8.6	58,920	17.9	292	17.8	28,148	5.8	4,330	2.4	23,251	6.8
Bachelor’s Degree	194,844	14.6	52,267	15.9	546	33.2	80,725	16.7	18,697	10.4	42,609	12.4
Advanced Degree	110,125	8.2	40,055	12.2	449	27.3	41,717	8.6	4,977	2.8	22,927	6.7
Unknown	26,387	2	6,826	2.1	9	0.5	2,715	0.6	656	0.4	16,181	4.7
Ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino	236,569	17.7	52,519	16	245	14.9	82,245	17	43,897	24.4	57,663	16.8
Not Hispanic or Latino	1,099,279	82.3	276,369	84	1,398	85.1	400,171	83	135,781	75.6	285,560	83.2
Marital Status
Divorced	64,515	4.8	20,005	6.1	69	4.2	24,898	5.2	5,345	3	14,198	4.1
Married	668,009	50	177,249	53.9	1,013	61.7	252,894	52.4	70,841	39.4	166,012	48.4
Never Married	601,224	45	131,395	40	557	33.9	204,020	42.3	103,405	57.6	161,847	47.2
Other*	2,100	0.2	239	0.1	4	0.2	604	0.1	87	0	1,166	0.3
Race
American Indian or Alaska Native	14,224	1.1	2,526	0.8	17	1	3,532	0.7	1,908	1.1	6,241	1.8
Asian	65,936	4.9	14,522	4.4	117	7.1	24,951	5.2	5,907	3.3	20,439	6
Black or African American	230,055	17.2	48,753	14.8	156	9.5	102,176	21.2	18,746	10.4	60,224	17.5
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	15,543	1.2	3,977	1.2	14	0.9	5,638	1.2	1,873	1	4,041	1.2
Multi-racial**	40,239	3	15,571	4.7	107	6.5	N/A	N/A	2,442	1.4	22,119	6.4
White	920,264	68.9	232,113	70.4	1,159	70.5	328,082	68	143,148	79.7	215,762	62.9
Other/Unknown	49,587	3.7	11,426	3.5	73	4.4	18,037	3.7	5,654	3.1	14,397	4.2
Sex
Female	231,741	82.7	69,991	21.3	324	19.7	74,873	84.5	16,301	9.1	70,252	20.5
Male	1,104,106	17.3	258,896	78.7	1,319	80.3	407,543	15.5	163,377	90.9	272,971	79.5

Staff Sgt. Kenyah Smith, front, and Senior Airman Dillon Golden, 25th Fighter Generation Squadron, move a GBU-31V3 munition to an A-10C Thunderbolt II during a weapons load competition at Osan Air Base, South Korea, Nov. 23, 2022. **Staff Sgt. Tristan Truesdell**

Personnel

DOD TOTAL FORCE END STRENGTH

DOD ACTIVE DUTY BY ENLISTED/OFFICER AND SEX

DOD MILITARY DEMOGRAPHICS BY SERVICE

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