 Re: Where have all the marines gone?
Well, firstly, 1000 is a number meant to be taken with a VERY, VERY large pinch of salt. It still varies radically. This number includes your squads and their respective sergeants.
Anyone above a line officer is excluded from this, including command squad members. Each Captain is a surplus, plus their command squads. Chaplains and command squads are a surplus, librarian's + CS as well...the list goes on. The number 1000 is good when referring to the Chapter's line-and-file, but when you go above that, things get tricky. Also, the radically changing roster lists due to KIA's and MIA's means that you'll never have a true number of the Marine's in that Chapter.
The Chapter most likely to have and accurate number of Marines, though, are the Ultramarines. They have the best logistics dept. in the business.
So yeah, take this number very lightly indeed.
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