>>> Under the Freedom of Information Act, I requested the number of people who had deserted the United States Navy over the past few years. I received the chart below, showing month-by-month totals from January 2000 to July 2003.

In the letter accompanying this chart, the Navy Personnel Command wrote: "More than 91% of those personnel have since returned to military control."

The official numbers by year:

2000: 3,317
2001: 3,319
2002: 2,770
2003 (through end of July): 1,281

TOTAL: 10,687

[See info on Army deserters here]

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