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Old 2nd December 2009 | 21:28
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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.
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