United States military deployments

Countries with a US military presence in 2007

  More than 1,000 US personnel

  More than 100 US personnel

  Use of military facilities

Overseas troops share over time

The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 369,000 of its 1,580,255 active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories. Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the "War on Terror". Many of the remainder are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to counter the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.

U.S. personnel are seeing active combat in several countries, most notably Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Others are deployed as part of several "peacekeeping" missions.

The following are countries, listed by region, in which U.S. military personnel are deployed. Many of the numbers are based on Department of Defense statistics from December 2010. These numbers do not include any military or civilian contractors, nor dependents. Countries with fewer than 25 U.S. personnel deployed are omitted.

Combat zones

• Iraq - Approximately 45,600 US personnel as of December 31, 2010.
• Afghanistan – Approximately 103,700 US personnel as of December 31, 2010.

Africa

• Djibouti – 334
• Kenya - 42
• Cairo, Egypt – 52
• Sinai Desert, Egypt - Approximately 500 personnel. See Multinational Force and Observers.

Asia

• South Korea – 28,500
• Japan – 40,178
• Philippines - 182
• Diego Garcia - 286
• Jakarta, Indonesia - 30
• Singapore – 157
• Thailand – 162
• Malaysia - 16

Oceania

• Australia - 178
• Marshall Islands - 15
• New Zealand - 11

Europe

US military bases in Germany in 2009.

• Germany – 54,198
• Italy – 10,771
• United Kingdom – 9,436
• Spain – 1,483
• Norway - 89
• Sweden - 9
• Belgium – 1,234
• Portugal – 731
• Netherlands – 433
• Greece – 378
• Greenland - 135
• France - 72
• Poland - 33
• Turkey – 1,511
• Serbia (and Kosovo) - 26

Middle East

• Qatar – 678
• Bahrain – 1,894
• Kuwait - 10,548
• Oman - 33
• United Arab Emirates - 140

Western Hemisphere

• Antigua - 3
• Colombia - 64
• Saint Helena - 3
• Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – 881
• Netherlands Antilles - 10

United States

There are 1,226,638 personnel on active duty in the United States and its territories:

• The contiguous United States – 1,019,767
• Transients – 55,356
• Hawaii – 42,360
• Guam – 4,137
• Puerto Rico - 190
• Alaska – 21,506

See also

• List of United States military bases
• Overseas expansion of the United States
• Status of forces agreement

External links

• DoD deployment numbers (June 30, 2011).
• [1] Base Listing as of September 2006.
• Current deployment map – PBS
• [2] - U.S. forces withdrawn from Iceland