Quality of PDF enlisted troops

[Komsomol]

they are rated against people with an inferiority complex of course

[Saracen]

Is the Army getting Younger

Further to my entry above the Dail answer gave some interesting data on the average age of the PDF - Comparing average age 321/12/2001 against 31/12/2006

Officers
BG 58.20,57.25 = [0.95]; Col 55.82,56.49 =0.67; Lt Col 51.78, 53.22 = 1.44;
Cmdt 45.19, 45.99 = 0.80; Capt 33.32, 32.40 = [0.92]; Lt 24.85, 24.68 = [0.17]
When the number of officers at each rank are taken we moved from 1258 to 1388
resulting in an increase in age from 37.351 years to 38.26 years

Other Ranks
SM 52.30, 52.53 =0.23; BQMS 52.18, 53.10 = 0.92; CS 46.70, 48.00 = 1.30
CQMS 48.09, 49.17 = 1.08; Sgt 42.44, 42.99 = 0.55; Clp 32.22, 36.58 = 4.36
Pvt 31.04, 31.98 = 0.94 whilst Cadets 19.82 to 21.20 =1.38
When the number of officers at each rank are taken we moved from 9414 to 9035
resulting in an increase in age from 46.365 years to 35.721 years

Overall the PDF moved from 10672 to 10423 strong
and average age 45.41 [2001] to 35.938 [2006]

Is this the picture you see every day



To complete the calculations I took data in other Dail answers which gave a breakdown of the PDF by rank, number and genda at the two dates.

Kieran, can you give a link to that page? Trying to find it but navigating the site is a bit tricky!

[Kieran Marum]

Kieran, can you give a link to that page? Trying to find it but navigating the site is a bit tricky!

If memory seves me right it is on

http://debates.oirachtas.ie/DDebates.aspx?F=DAL20070307.XML&Node=2371

It was question 132

is on the Government web site

choose Parliamnet, then dail debates 2004-2007, then select 07 March in 2005
(A)click on questions, then defence, then look for Defence Forces Personnel
or (B) Select the right hand PDF symbol at top of page and scrole down to question 132

[trellheim]

In addition they are all PDF documents so you can use the Adobe reader -
for example

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/Xml/29/DAL20070307.PDF