Re: [OT] Interesting Facts of Canadian Military Life

And before we Americans get too snooty about this, at one point in the
past
20 years or so we had 2 Admirals per ship in the Navy (I forget the
exact
ratio -- it was actually 2.15 or something similar).  That's per ship,
including auxiliaries, not per fighting ship.

Nick Caldwell

----- Original Message -----
From: Don M <dmaddox1@hot.rr.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Interesting Facts of Canadian Military Life

> More Field Marshals than fields to hold um lol.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Morton Chalom <telson@ameritech.net>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Interesting Facts of Canadian Military Life
>
>
> >
> >
> > >[Tomb] Glenn, you probably don't realize
> > >this, but at one point, we had more
> > >generals (flag rank people) per soldier (non-
> > >flag rank) than anyone else in NATO: 1 per
> > >1000 men in uniform.
> >
> > Ohhh... so is Canada the "Major Power in the late 20th Century"
mentioned
> > by Heinlein in Starship Troopers when he refers to having so many
officers
> > that they wanted insignia to denote which were Line Officers?
> >
> > I have often wondered what was the story behind that.
> >
> > --Morton
> >
> >
> >
>