PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Top Heavy
Thread: Top Heavy
View Single Post
Old 2nd Dec 2009, 21:28
  #15 (permalink)  
ORAC
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Peripatetic
Posts: 17,394
Received 1,586 Likes on 723 Posts
it's not comparing like for like.

The army has a lot of experienced NCOs because you need them on the battlefield and to cover attrition. The RAF is top heavy because the aircrew are mostly commissioned and that affects the ratio above. The RN works to fixed ratios on board ship.

So you have to compare each to their task, their churn rate and their wartime expected attrition rate - not against each other.
ORAC is offline