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For months now the senior leadership of the Canadian military has been bemoaning the crippling shortfall of personnel in the ranks.
When you factor in all those serving personnel who are currently on sick leave, stress leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, retirement leave and those personnel recruited but still awaiting trades training, those numbers make things far worse in reality than in Eyre's briefing notes. As the bottom falls out of the CAF at the rank and file level, the top offices remain filled to the brim. Clearly, the government realizes that even a casual observer will question that bloated ratio of GOFO's to the dwindling number of troops they still command.
The British press recently questioned why their army was commanded by 53 general officers when the troop strength had dropped to 70,000. That would be a ratio of one GOFO per 1,300 British soldiers. Back in 1995, in the wake of the Somalia scandal that shone a public spotlight on the darker reality of the CAF, citizens questioned why Canada had 96 GOFOs for a military with only 65,000 regular force personnel. The Liberal government of the day had been quick to disband the entire Canadian Airborne Regiment overnight, but in the case of the bloated command structure, they set a goal of one GOFO per 1,000 personnel to be achieved through natural attrition.
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