More than 750,000 former service members live in Southern California with San Diego County hosting the largest concentration of active duty military men and women in the country.

From naval bases in the south to Marine bases in the north, upwards of 125,000 service members live and work here. Dependents, National Guardsmen and reservists add tens of thousands to this number.

About 280,000-plus veterans and their spouses live in San Diego County, while Los Angeles County is home to an 346,000 veterans and Orange County another 139,000.

Taken as a whole, Southern California is home to roughly 1 million people connected to the military in some way.

The defense industry's economic clout is no less impressive.

A July 2009 report by the National University System Institute for Policy Research pegged direct and indirect military spending in San Diego County alone at a staggering $22.3 billion.

An estimated 1 of every 7 dollars of regional economic activity -- not to mention nearly 475,000 jobs -- is tied to Defense Department dollars flowing here. San Diego County defense contractors rank fourth nationally in attracting defense dollars.

And this spending is growing.

Yet just a handful of media outlets serve these large populations, and none do so particularly well. Don't take my word for it. Read the papers yourself. Until DefenseTracker.Com came along there was little beyond the sensational and the maudlin.

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