Re: Change (was: (TFT) Jobs table: ...)

[Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Mark Tapley wrote:
> At 19:02 -0400 9/27/11, Jay wrote:
>>
>> The u.s. entered the Great War (WWI) in April 1917.
>> Versailles was signed in June 1918.
>
>        Fascinating post. I'd thought of the WWII build-up as stunning, but
this puts even that to shame in some ways.
>
> BUT....
>
>        This history relies on a technology base able to field 200,000
soldiers plus the "work battalions" plus the industrial infrastructure
*plus* the normal-technology ground troops, and still feed everyone.

I'll make it worse for myself before I try and make it better.
We mobilized 1 in 10 for direct martial service.
About 4 million men.
That 200,000 directly in the air service (not work battalions) is about 5
percent of what we fielded.
Sounds bad for me huh?
Of course tractors and the agriculture boom... but that's another story
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