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[OT]Misc statistics

From: Alderfek@a...
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:47:30 EDT
Subject: [OT]Misc statistics

Just passing along...
 >  NAME THIS COUNTRY:
 >
 >  709,000 regular (active duty) service personnel
 >
 >  293,000 reserve troops;
 >
 >  Eight standing Army divisions;
 >
 >   20 Air Force and Navy air wings with 2,000 combat aircraft;
 >
 >   232 strategic bombers;
 >
 >   13 strategic ballistic missile submarines with 3,114 nuclear
 >   warheads on 232 missiles;
 >
 >   500 ICBMs with 1,950 warheads;
 >
 >   Four aircraft carriers, and;
 >
 >   121 surface combat ships and submarines, plus all the support
 >   bases, shipyards and logistical assets needed to sustain such a
 >   naval force.
 >
 >   Is this country Russia? . . . No
 >
 >   Red China ? . . . No
 >
 >   Great Britain ? . . . Wrong Again
 >
 >   USA? . . . Hardly
 >
 >   Give up??
 >
 >   Well, don't feel too bad if you are unable to identify this global
 >   superpower because this country no longer exists.
 >
 >   It has vanished.
 >
 >   These are the American military forces that have disappeared since
 >   the 1992 election

Kirk Alderfer
Technical Mercenary

"Meandering to a different drummer"


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