We have more admirals than ships too.
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Well, if they do buy it...........”....
It will be with our money as a gift from odumbo.
wow. I didn’t know that.
I wrote a story about a country that only had admirals once. lol
Near as I can tell, that's an exaggeration, though not by much.
First, you have to count submarines as "boats", not ships, which by tradition the Navy does.
Second, you'd have to count in some less than fully active (i.e., reserves or retired) to boost the number of admirals.
Still, in WWII there were 30 ships for every admiral, so that says a lot about how far we've fallen.
No doubt part of the explanation is that should the time come when we must rapidly expand the armed forces, there will be necessary leadership to fill the new slots.