Reshaping the Sea Service

• $119 billion the Navy's fiscal 2005 budget request.
• $77 billion the share of the 2005 budget slated for personnel expenses.
• $1.2 billion the amount the Navy estimates it saves for every 10,000 jobs eliminated.
• 413,500 the number of active-duty and reserve sailors on duty at the height of Operation Iraqi Freedom last spring.

A Varied Crew

Half of the Navy's 900,000 personnel are active-duty or reserve sailors, while the remainder are Defense Department civilian workers and contract employees.

• 470,000 Active-duty and reserve sailors
• 180,000 Federal civilian employees
• 250,000 Contractor employees (Fiscal 2005 estimate)

Source: U.S. NAVY

Thinning the Ranks

By the end of the decade, the Navy will shed about 25,000 sailors, dropping from a high of 382,000 to 357,000.