Since we don't see witches given any choice in being able to join specific branches of the military on Conscription Day, it's very possible that being sent to the Navy is a post-Basic graduation assignment. And it's also likely that we just didn't see a lot of the witches who 'flunked out' of Basic/Citydrop because they were already deployed and/or weren't invited to graduation.

It's more likely people are just celebrating good assignments. We don't actually know 97% (or just 'most') got into War College.

But yes, them dying in massive numbers is basically why the Spree are so against the military, because they're essentially being wiped out in a 'nice' way (as opposed to the Camarilla's blatant genocidal tactics). As birth rates declined over the years it meant deaths (even if their numbers held steady per year) had a larger impact on the population. Historically the witch population used to be higher, so they could afford more casualties. I think I read somewhere that the creator wants to show naval witches so maybe they get trained elsewhere? I feel like it should be more like 10,000-20,000 witches getting drafted each year to be realistic as a population.

Unless there's other less prestigious basic training around? Which also doesn't really make sense because they would have mentioned it. Although tallys friend seemed to imply that that is rare.Īnd also there must be enough spree witches who would all be from the US that the military has to fight.Īlso, it seemed like at graduation everyone but the main trio was celebrating so how did like 97% of basic get into war college? I would assume the ratio of front lines to war college would be much bigger on the front line side.Įach year 180,000 people enlist in the US military so the population of Fort Salem seems way too small. Unless there's a massive subset of witches who are able to get out of the draft. So how is the population able to sustain itself? Seems like more are dying than they can train. So like it seems more die in a year than can even go through basic. And we know the men don't even fight in combat anymore.īut also Tally mentions how she comes from some all female witch commune which implies to me that the population is fairly large.Īnd just in the first season it seems like at least maybe 50 witches died on various missions within the first season. So assuming that basic lasts a year, you'd have a max of 30 women and lets assume equal genders so 30 men. And since they were at the witch version of war games I think thats the entire year. When everyone from basic is in Boston to stop the spree, i believe its maybe ~20-30 that are in the V to stop the trucks.

How many witchers are there