We already spend some $35 billion every year maintaining our current nuclear force.

That option would involve some 25,000 to 30,000 troops, about half the number in the current force.

The systems under discussion would be large enough to counter China's small current forces.

Instead, the current force of 145,000 is building to 160,000.

But staying with the current force and mission will produce the same result.

Now you'd have light vehicles fighting the same way as the current force, without the protection.

The current 7,000-member force is almost out of money.

Those categories, and college graduates also, each account for under 13 percent of the current force.

The official said the request was enough "to sustain the current forces through the rest of the year."

Members of the current armed forces and national police are involved.