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 Canadian Army facts

• As of September 2013 the Army has 21,600 regular soldiers, about 24,000 reserve soldiers, and 5,000 rangers, for a total of 50,600 soldiers
• The Army is supported by 5,600 civilian employees
• It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also responsible for the Army Reserve, the largest component of the Primary Reserve
• The Commander of the Canadian Army and Chief of the Army Staff is Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk
• The name "Canadian Army" only came into official use beginning in 1940; from before Confederation until the Second World War the official designation was "Canadian Militia"
• On 1 April 1966, as a precursor to the unification of Canada's armed services, all land forces were placed under a new entity called Mobile Command
• In 1968 the "Canadian Army" ceased to exist as a legal entity as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army (CA), and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) were merged to form a single service called the Canadian Armed Forces
• Mobile Command was renamed Land Force Command in the 1993 reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces
• In August 2011, Land Force Command reverted to the pre-1968 title of the Canadian Army