During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said that he "supports plans to increase the size of the Army by 65,000 troops and the Marines by 27,000 troops."

As we noted when we last looked at this promise, this sounds a lot more impressive than it is, since by the time Obama was inaugurated, the Army and Marine Corps had already begun a program aimed at increasing their ranks by those numbers by the end of 2010. Their target size was 547,400 for the Army and 202,000 for the Marine Corps.

But even if he inherited the plan, Obama gets credit for supporting the necessary funding to make it possible and for not backing off the goal.

For the Army, the number on active duty was 565,463 as of Oct. 19, 2011, said Lt. Col. Timothy M. Beninato, an Army spokesman. That's actually higher the goal Obama had cited.

As for the Marines, the current number on active duty is is 202,000, said Capt. Gregory A. Wolf, a spokesman for the Marines.

So both branches have met or exceeded the personnel goals Obama set out.

We'll note that neither branch will stay at its current level indefinitely.

The Army is undergoing a draw-down with a projected "end strength" of 520,400 by fiscal year 2016," Beninato said, adding that "no decisions have been made as to what types of units or what installations will be (reduced) by the Secretary of Defense's announcement."

Meanwhile, there is a plan to shrink to 186,800 Marines at the end of Marine Corps operations in Afghanistan, Wolf said.

But Obama said nothing about keeping the higher levels indefinitely. We rate this a Promise Kept.