The Navy Has As Many Admirals as Ships
Frontpage mag | May 15, 2025 | Daniel GreenfieldAnd the Air Force has a general for every 22 planes..
The US Navy has under 300 ships and under 300 admirals. The ratio of one admiral to one ship seems absurd but of the hundreds of admirals in the Navy, few actually command ships.
The point of becoming an Admiral is to permanently get OFF the stinky death traps . Then the Admirals can fart like free range chickens but make you stand there and breath it..
Yeah, well, Michelle Obama had more Maids & Aides than the Pope has Cardinals.
Oh Yeah?
Texas has more bull sh*ters than bulls.
No wonder that the IMAO staff is constantly searching for new interns, seeing the same sad faces day after day must be tough on everyone…
We had a Shipyard Caption get promoted to “Admiral”; technically Rear Admiral, Lower Half. I thought it sounded like an insult more than a promotion.
As many as nine, eh? It’d be nice to know what they look like and have them come out and expose themselves to the bohemian masses once and a while.
Ouch!
Well, yeah, come to think of it, probably nine of us who matter. (“He’s Just joking, folks.” — Babe in Marketing Dept.) I’ll leave you to figure out who they might be.
Wouldn’t there be twelve, so FrankJ could be a martyr to this site?
Heh. I pulled nine out of nowhere (down there) as the largest single digit number possible. Hey, nine’s a lot of Interns. I have no clue what IMAO’s viewer count is these days. But at one time it was on the order of 5,000 unique visitors/day according to Frnak’s counter gadget. Sorry, your title was a perfect invitation for an unearned jab. (But it’s like 100/day at this point, no?)
I just checked. In the last week, the rule of thumb has been between 270 and 320 unique visitors (not page views).
But it’s a pretty big thumb.
Once in the last month, and again another time in the previous year, there have been astronomical upticks / escalations of viewers, by thousands, on a given day. Real outliers. Followed by system crashes or failures. Draw your own conclusions.
I’m thinking of this as a chat room, no? Some of us comment and get some bacon votes. I’m miffed that other readers can’t be bothered to vote up or down. But I’ve never been comfortable coming up with a definition of “miffed.” Sounds like obscene military slang.
New Poem:
“Obscure, obscene military slang
Sent astronaughty men to the moon with Tang.”
And popularity’s overrated. Quality of associates is what counts.
^ Crashes caused by NSA and FBI “slashdotting” Walrus’s babes, no doubt.
Pretty good numbers, though. But we need more female commenters! (Not that there ever were that many, I don’t think.) Come on lurking ladies!
You are welcome to identify as female if that works for you.
I saw a video which showed that the UK had as many generals as working tanks.
“Join the Loyal Royal Officers’ Corps! Help Us Put ‘U’ in ‘Armor’.”