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tooth-to-tail ratio noun the ratio of combat troops (tooth) to rear-echelon support personnel (tail) US, 1991- This relationship of numbers is not quite what is referred to in military jargon as the “tooth to tail ratio.” — Nadav Safran, From War to War, p. 332, 1969
- The Marine Corps tooth-to-tail ratio has been running around 63 to 37 percent. — House Approprations Committee, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1977, p. 564, 1976
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 221, 1991
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