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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
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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I know everyone isn't in uniform, I never said that. I also know there is a section for every administrator. 23,000 work at the
Pentagon, do we really warrant that much bureaucracy?
I will grant the operational units at NDHQ, I didn't consider that. That said, my point stands.
Canadian Defence Policy with a focus on expeditionary capabilities.