2026 USAF & USSF Almanac: DOD Personnel

DOD Personnel

DOD Total Force End Strength

As of Sept. 30, 2025 | In thousands

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Fiscal Year / Category	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 Est.	2027 Req.
Active-Duty Military
USAF	311	317	323	326	328	330	328	324	315	312	319	326	330
Army	491	475	476	484	484	481	487	465	449	445	455	460	469
Marine Corps	184	184	185	186	186	181	180	174	173	173	173	173	174
Navy	328	325	324	330	337	342	348	344	328	328	341	353	357
USSF	—	—	—	—	—	—	7	8	9	9	10	11	13
Full-time Guard & Reserve	76	76	75	79	83	87	90	90	91	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total	1,390	1,378	1,382	1,397	1,422	1,421	1,439	1,405	1,377	1,267	1,298	1,323	1,343
Selected Reserve
Air National Guard	106	106	106	107	107	107	109	108	105	104	105	106	107
AFRC	68	69	69	69	69	69	71	68	66	66	65	66	67
Army National Guard	350	342	344	335	336	336	338	329	325	324	329	333	331
Army Reserve	199	198	194	189	191	189	184	176	177	173	170	172	172
Marine Corps Reserve	39	38	39	38	38	36	35	33	33	33	33	34	35
Navy Reserve	57	58	58	59	60	59	58	55	55	56	58	58	57
Total***	819	812	810	797	801	796	794	769	761	756	760	769	769
Appropriated-Fund Civilian Full-time Equivalents
DAF	166	167	167	170	172	170	173	177	177	178^*	173	160	166
Army	206	195	191	189	190	251	250	218	228	185^*	184	154	152
Navy / Marine Corps	199	204	206	209	218	220	205	217	217	215^*	217	205	207
Defense Agencies	187	189	191	193	216	114	114	156	156	217^*	215	198	201
Total	758	755	756	761	796	755	762	779	779	795^*	789	717	726

* Requested | *** Total includes one estimate.
Sources: President’s Budget Request; Defense Manpower Data Center

DOD Active Duty by Enlisted / Officer and Sex

As of Sept. 30, 2025

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Category	DOD		DAF		Army		Marine Corps		Navy		Space Force
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Cadet / Midshipman
Female	3,460	26.6	1,145	28.1	957	21.3	n/a	n/a	1,358	30.4	n/a	n/a
Male	9,555	73.4	2,925	71.9	3,527	78.7	n/a	n/a	3,103	69.6	n/a	n/a
Enlisted
Female	186,089	17.7	52,758	20.8	56,299	15.7	15,409	10.2	60,674	21.6	949	17.8
Male	863,420	82.3	200,854	79.2	301,712	84.3	136,325	89.8	220,142	78.4	4,387	82.2
Officer
Female	49,691	21.1	15,609	25.4	18,383	20.0	2,300	10.7	12,433	22.3	966	20.8
Male	185,884	78.9	45,828	74.6	73,759	80.0	19,215	89.3	43,399	77.7	3,683	79.2
Total Active Duty	1,285,084	—	319,119	—	454,637	—	173,249	—	341,109	—	9,985	—

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

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 95th Fighter Squadron soars through the skies during exercise Checkered Flag 25-2 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., May 14, 2025. This large-scale aerial exercise brings together advanced fighter and support aircraft to sharpen the tactical skills of pilots and maintainers alike, reinforcing their ability to deliver rapid, lethal combat airpower in support of global operations. ***U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zeeshan Naeem***

DOD Active Duty Military Demographics by Service

As of September 2025 · Hover charts and numbers to interact

Education

DOD

Air Force

Space Force

Army

Marines

Navy

Race

DOD

Air Force

Space Force

Army*

Marines

Navy

	DOD 1,267,738		Air Force 311,920		Space Force 9,446		Army 445,334		Marine Corps 173,096		Navy 327,936
Category	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
TOTAL	1,267,738		311,920		9,446		445,334		173,096		327,936
Highest Educational Achievement
No High School Diploma or GED	1,311	0.1	192	0.1	3	0.0	555	0.1	56	0.0	505	0.2
High School Diploma/GED or Some College	820,416	64.7	162,613	52.1	2,785	29.5	283,620	63.7	144,895	83.7	226,503	69.1
Associate Degree	93,818	7.4	44,248	14.2	817	8.7	23,787	5.3	4,542	2.6	20,424	6.2
Bachelor’s Degree	191,309	15.1	54,139	17.4	2,555	27.0	72,993	16.4	17,986	10.4	43,636	13.3
Advanced Degree	105,489	8.3	38,600	12.4	2,874	30.4	36,324	8.2	5,240	3.0	22,451	6.8
Unknown	55,395	4.4	12,128	3.9	412	4.4	28,061	6.3	377	0.2	14,417	4.4
Ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino	258,663	20.4	57,057	18.3	1,414	15.0	86,781	19.5	50,750	29.3	62,661	19.1
Not Hispanic or Latino	1,009,075	79.6	254,863	81.7	8,032	85.0	358,559	80.5	122,346	70.7	265,275	80.9
Marital Status
Divorced	60,365	4.8	18,638	6.0	454	4.8	21,849	4.9	5,219	3.0	14,205	4.3
Married	603,495	47.6	164,472	52.7	5,425	57.4	209,278	47.0	67,711	39.1	156,609	47.8
Never Married	600,241	47.3	128,547	41.2	3,551	37.6	212,216	47.7	100,076	57.8	155,851	47.5
Other*	3,637	0.3	263	0.1	16	0.2	1,997	0.4	90	0.1	1,271	0.4
Race
American Indian or Alaska Native	13,810	1.1	2,825	0.9	63	0.7	3,346	0.8	2,295	1.3	5,281	1.6
Asian	50,059	3.9	16,378	5.3	685	7.3	4,991	1.1	6,324	3.7	21,681	6.6
Black or African American	229,352	18.1	49,226	15.8	826	8.7	96,268	21.6	20,315	11.7	62,717	19.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander**	12,112	1.0	4,162	1.3	82	0.9	1,679	0.4	2,042	1.2	4,147	1.3
Multi-racial**	82,883	6.5	17,156	5.5	633	6.7	41,287	9.3	2,762	1.6	21,045	6.4
White	855,811	67.5	212,478	68.1	6,778	71.8	294,868	66.2	137,759	79.6	203,928	62.2
Other/Unknown	23,711	1.9	9,695	3.1	379	4.0	2,901	0.7	1,599	0.9	9,137	2.8
Sex***
Female	227,114	17.9	67,565	21.7	1,801	19.1	71,417	16.0	17,274	10.0	69,057	21.1
Male	1,040,618	82.1	244,355	78.3	7,645	80.9	373,917	84.0	155,822	90.0	258,879	78.9

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