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FORCE MANAGEMENT

Annual Budget

Employees

#25 Iraq: $178 billion

#1 Wal-Mart: 2.2 million

U.S. Army: $147 billion

#2 U.S. Army: 1.02 million

#26 Finland: $136 billion

#3 U.S. Postal Service: .63 million

Health Care

Land Size
U.S. Army: 24,991 sq. mi.

U.S. Army: 3.95 million

(Active, Guard, and Reserve in all fifty states
and seven countries)

(Service members, retirees, and family members)

Oregon

Oregon: 3.97 million
(State population)

West
Virginia

West Virginia: 24,078 sq. mi.

Equipment
U.S. Army: $348.1 billion

(35.1 million items; units, Army prepositioned
stock, depots)

Wal-Mart: $45.1 billion (2014)

Vehicles
U.S. Army: 273,000
(Tactical wheeled vehicle)

U.S. Postal Service:
211,000 (Trucks)

Ford: $7.8 billion (2014)

Bases and Buildings
U.S. Army Installations: 73

Number of Buildings

(U.S. Army building population equals 54% of the
building population in Charlotte, North Carolina)

U.S. Army Materiel Command Installations: 23

312,000
buildings

National Guard Bureau: 48

169,502
buildings

(Training sites, centers, and armories)

North
Carolina

(Graphic courtesy of James Lowry Kennedy Jr.)

Figure 1. Scale of the Army in a Civilian Context
variety of responsibilities the Army has as it accomplishes its missions: the sheer size of the budget, the
considerable number of employees, the great expanse
of land and high number of locations, the enormous
amount of equipment, and the formidable scale of
health care. As in the business world, all of the areas
show change based on the need to meet ever-changing
threats. Officers should ask themselves, “If I was being
promoted to middle management in a large company, would I need to know how the company makes
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decisions on expanding or contracting, finances, personnel management, and adapting to markets to help
my company and my career?” The answer would be yes,
and it should be no different in the Army.

Why Force Management Is
Important
There are many reasons why force management
is important and why it should be stressed during
CGOSC. The top eight reasons follow:
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