Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: (npub1wc2…4sk7) got the 470k figure from an article saying
>2.) The size of the U.S. armed forces is shrinking as a result. The Army, for example, had to cut its active-duty end-strength this year to 466,000 from 476,000 last year because it missed its recruiting goal by 25 percent.
idk what that figure is specifically yeah since the US has a lot more uniformed full-time personel for sure