How many 'stars' are there in each service?
WARNING!! Maths in public alert...
If, for argument's sake, there are 125 'starred' officers in the RAF, that must be a total of what, 200 'stars'?
Before redundancies, there must be ~40,000 RAF personnel
That means there is a 'star' for every ~ 200 service(wo)men
God almighty! How about we make this more reasonable, one 'star' per 500? So we only need 80 'stars'
How about we let the RAF decide - 80 one-stars, or 20 four-stars - it's up to the high-paid help to decide how they dish out their 80 stars.
Of course, the other services have the same number of stars pro rata
Edit.. I suspect I'm being conservative with the distribution of 'stars'