Their sheer excitement is palpable!
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Hmmm, the US has a lot of generals
A cursory search says about 900 officers above the rank of Colonel (aka general/flag officers). There are about 1.3M active duty and 800k reserve personnel in the US armed forces, meaning about 2300:1 ratio of troops to GO/FO.
My country, Canada, has about 130 senior officers, and about 87,000 total members, for a ratio of 670:1.
The UK has about 475 senior officers, and about 172,000 total members, for a ratio of 362:1.
(All numbers are subject to human error on my part. The UK senior officer numbers in particular I’m not 100% on as I literally just counted the names on Wikipedia)
I didn’t feel like doing research beyond that, but while the USA does have a lot of military brass, they also have a lot of people in their military, and the ratio isn’t as top-heavy as other militaries.
EDIT: changed the wording in the first paragraph to line up better.
All controlled by armchair generals
I wonder if Hegeseth even noticed that most of his speech was basically just a roundabout way of saying, “Many of you sitting here don’t deserve your jobs because you aren’t white men”
C’mon, DoD.
We’re going to find out who takes their oath seriously.
You expect the agency actively aiding genocide to do anything good?
Expect? No.
