…writes the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments: The Army is the most sensitive to changes in the costs of military personnel because they account for more of its budget than other services, according to a new analysis from the think tank by Katherine Blakeley.
Those costs account for about 37 percent of the Army's budget, though they have declined by nearly 15 percent since fiscal 2010, when they averaged $142,471 per service member, Blakeley reports.
For the Army, the Trump administration requested no additional active-duty troops in fiscal 2018 compared to the troop levels appropriated by Congress the previous fiscal year, Blakeley adds.