Talk:Imperial 203rd Aerial Mage Battalion/@comment-24585709-20170409142903/@comment-31695582-20170413151738

I believe that Carlo Zen chose to treat Aerial Mage Units the same as Air Units. According to our good old friend Wikipedia, a present day Wing usually contains 3 squadrons each with 12 to 24 air planes. Each squadron is then divided into 3 to 4 flights of 3 to 6 planes each.

In YJ, a Wing usually has 3 squadrons of 12 mages each and, if I'm not mistaken 3 flights of 4 mages. At the Rhine, I believe that Tanya ends up in a flight of only two with Visha but that was a force majeure case after the timely passing of the two patriots. Interesting, despite being a major, Tanya is allowed to command a Wing whereas the bare minimum modern rank to be able to do it is NATO's OF-4 (Wing Commander) which is the equivalent to Lt. Colonel in the Army, the rank Tanya latter is promoted to. Her current rank in the anime, Major, is OF-3 which is the equivalent of Squadron Leader for the Air Force. That's the rank Weiss later reaches when he takes command of the battalion/wing if my interpretation of the novel summaries already published here is not mistaken.

Carlo Zen may have mixed up the military ranking or he may have decided to base himself on military rankings from the past. The info I posted is, according to the respective wikipedia pages, up to date and currently in use. Other than giving Tanya the Lt. Colonel promotion needed to command the wing, it all fits present day military standards. Plus, at the time Tanya was a 1st Lt. (OF-1). For her to get a double promotion was already going to far. Zettour even comments on it. Going one step further, without any more war merits would be a Deus Ex Machina or would force Carlo Zen to add another Tour of Service for Tanya between the time she left the War College and the time she formed the Wing/Batallion, which could in turn drag the story on only for a small benefit.