Mark Brandon Chopper Read (17 November 1954 â 9 October 2013) was an Australian criminal and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels.arly life [edit]. Read was born on 17 November 1954 to a former army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life.
The Air Force began fiscal 2014 with 330,700 active-duty airmen, and by Nov. 6, that number had dropped to 316,500. The 2015 levels of 312,980 are the lowest the service has ever had, except for 1947, its first year in existence, when it had 305,827 airmen.
About 1.5 million active duty and about 1.2 million reserves. Since our population is over 300 million right now that's less than 1 percent of our population currently serving, active and reserves combined.