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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
Using 2010 published numbers..
The Air Force had 333K Troops and 285 O7+ slots,
or 1.2 Generals per 1K HC
The Navy had 325K sailors and 223 O7+ slots in 2011,
or 1.45 Admirals per 1K HC..
The Army had 565K Troops and 315 O7+ slots,
or 1.8 Generals per 1K HC
The MARINES had 200K troops & 81 O7+ slots??
Or about 2.5 slots per 1K HC..
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Those are just the number of slots. From my post, add the total number of authorized slots in your branch of service to the minimum number of joint slots, and you get your numbers. But the joint numbers are a minimum, not a maximum. So you could fill all your own slots and pack in a bunch more in purple suits. Also, there's a 60-day window during which officers released from joint duty assignments don't count against your service caps, so at any one time, there's no clear upper limit on how many generals and admirals there can be.
From the prior section, 10 USC § 525, here are the permitted rank distributions. Again, officers on joint duty or just released from joint duty don't count.
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(a) For purposes of the applicable limitation in section 526(a) of this title on general and flag officers on active duty, no appointment of an officer on the active duty list may be made as follows:
(1) in the Army, if that appointment would result in more than—
(A) 7 officers in the grade of general;
(B) 45 officers in a grade above the grade of major general; or
(C) 90 officers in the grade of major general;
(2) in the Air Force, if that appointment would result in more than—
(A) 9 officers in the grade of general;
(B) 43 officers in a grade above the grade of major general; or
(C) 73 officers in the grade of major general;
(3) in the Navy, if that appointment would result in more than—
(A) 6 officers in the grade of admiral;
(B) 32 officers in a grade above the grade of rear admiral; or
(C) 50 officers in the grade of rear admiral;
(4) in the Marine Corps, if that appointment would result in more than—
(A) 2 officers in the grade of general;
(B) 15 officers in a grade above the grade of major general; or
(C) 22 officers in the grade of major general.
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The statute isn't clear, but I would expect that Rear Admirals (Lower Half) aren't counted as RADMs for §525(a)(3)(C), but are treated like BGs in the other service.
Combining the two sections, and taking into account the typo by the drafters (they repeated MG/RADM and left out LTG/VADM in §526(b)(3)(B) and (C)), this would appear to be the total distribution:
O-10 - 20 joint, 7 USA, 9 USAF, 6 USN, 2 USMC
O-9 - 68 joint, 45 USA, 43 USAF, 32 USN, 15 USMC
O-8 - 144 joint, 90 USA, 73 USAF, 50 USN, 22 USMC
O-7 - no real upper limit
Any guesses as to how many four-stars there were in 1944-45? Somehow I think it was less than 44.