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To: Suzy Quzy

In the Department of Defense there are:

34 - four star generals/admirals

124 - three star generals/admirals

278 - two star generals/admirals

439 - one star generals/admirals

Throw in the U.S. Coast Guard and you have 900 generals and admirals on active duty today. This is roughly the same number of generals/admirals who were on active duty in WWII when our military was 12,000,000 strong.

Given that on any given year 15-20% of those generals/admirals will retire each year it doesn't take much figuring to realize that the number of generals calling for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign is laughable.


39 posted on 04/18/2006 12:01:48 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Sounds like too many damn generals to me.


41 posted on 04/18/2006 12:03:29 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: george76

And how many Lt. Generals are there?


61 posted on 04/18/2006 1:44:39 PM PDT by jer33 3
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