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Military branches

Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard (Coast Guard administered in peacetime by the US Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy).


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Military manpower

military age: 18 years of age (2004 est.)
availability: males age 15-49: 73,597,731 (2004 est.)
fit for military service: NA (2004 est.)
reaching military age annually: males: 2,124,164 (2004 est.)


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Military expenditures

dollar figure: $370.7 billion (FY04 est.) (March 2003)
percent of GDP: 3.3% (FY03 est.) (February 2004) 



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