Maryland

As of 2002, there were 30,928 active US military personnel in Maryland. Ft. Meade is located in Baltimore, and the Aberdeen Proving Ground is in Harford County. Perhaps Maryland's best-known defense installation is Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, a military airlift center. Annapolis is the home of the US Naval Academy. Total military personnel at all naval facilities, including the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, was 15,853 in 2002. Federal defense contract awards to Maryland firms were approximately $4.9 billion in 2001.

There were 524,230 veterans of US military service in Maryland as of 2000, of whom 87,442 served in World War II; 55,875 in the Korean conflict; 150,518 during the Vietnam era; and 73,287 during 1990–2000 (including the Persian Gulf War). A total of $836 million in veterans' benefits were paid in 2002.

In 2000, the Maryland State Police employed 1,575 full-time sworn officers.