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Originally Posted by FactaNV
The size of the headquarters itself. With the manning shortages we're facing (from what I understand we're sitting at roughly 84,000 Reg and Res), that's one administrator for every 8.4 soldiers. We have such an admin bloat it's not even funny. A bureaucrat per section seems silly.
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Originally Posted by FactaNV
I know the situation in the military quite well, it was the focus of my degree and I have served 10 years in the CAF. There is so much admin bloat it hurts more than it helps. Bearing in mind most of the administrators are required to navigate the absolutely Byzantine system we've leashed our armed forces with, so I don't actually blame them, I blame the government for allowing the inefficiencies to balloon. You could probably cut NDHQ in half and see no detriment to the troops.
There's a lot of NCMs and officers up to Maj kicking around NDHQ making coffee for staff officers and their civvie equivalents that would be much more useful posted to the various units in their services.
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1) It's not 10 000 military personnel. It's 10 000 personnel combined between military and public servant.
2) Aside from normal chain of command, they are doing everything from making sure you get the three Bs when deployed (CJOC) to making sure an infrastructure portfolio of tens of billions is properly managed (ADM(IE)) to a whole lot of policy (ADM(POL), HR CIV, CMP, etc).
3) NCR headcount includes a lot more operational units these days including the entire space component, a good part of the cyber component and warfare development centres like the Joint Warfare Centre and Electronic Warfare Centre.
So what exactly was the focus of your degree and what was your exposure that you didn't know a lot of the above and just think everybody at Carling is a coffee boy waiting to serve a general?
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