Eating crow: MoD civilians

I've been repeating the politician/mainstream media line about MoD civilians (by implication bureaucrats) outnumbering infantry without checking the facts.

Comes Think Defence to put me straight (also here). 

9,600 are in the Trading Funds, that’s the Met office, Hydrographic Office, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the Defence Support Group. All of these provide vital services to the MoD and all but one actually return a profit.

10,500 are locally employed civilians outside the UK, educating service families children, maintaining the estate and running stores for example. 2,700 are in Defence Estates, 7,700 involved with Policing and Guarding and 2,700 in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Squawk, gulp.