I think Sgt is closer about the numbers. Looking at the breakdown of National level bases and teams that need to be staffed, there are a total of 28. Three of them are hospitals, which if we say they are the equivalent of a Combat Support Hospital with 250 beds, you will have around 600 people staffing each one. If it is staffed more like a regular hospital, 250 beds will have closer to 1200 people staffing it. Seven are research labs, which if I use the small biotech research lab I worked at as a model, has about 5 researchers, 15 assistants and, 15 glass/machinists/maintenance workers.
With just this level of staffing of these two types, we have between 2000 and 3800 people. How many are stationed at Prime Base, 100? How many workers per factory, 25?
The air bases easily each have about 3 each of 2 different rotary wing craft and some number of fixed wing craft. For now let's say 2 fixed wing. There will be some crossover, but some specialist for each aircraft. There should be about 20 pilots (2 per craft plus 4 for rotation), 15 mechanics and machinist, plus at least 5 for base logistics like flight scheduling and air traffic control. That put another 40 per base, 120 total, under the national bases.
These numbers probably more accurately describe staffing at the Regional level bases. Are the National level hospitals and bases larger and have even more staff than this? Any way you slice this, you are disappearing a modest sized city.
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