I don't know how you can say that. The longest serving officer in the Royal Navy was a Canadian, Provo Wallis, born in Nova Scotia in 1791, and died in England in 1892. He was first read into the Navy in 1796, as a ship's boy (the beginning of the career path for midshipman, from which one hoped to become an officer), and served for 96 years (77 years of that as a serving officer, 1800-1877). They ain't nothin' trivial about that!