This via the Daily Caller...
The Marine Corps would be cut by 30%, from 202,000 to 145,000, and the other funding cuts planned for the Corps mean the United States will not be able to mount a major amphibious landing on any hostile shore. Marine Corps programs to be killed include the V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft and the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.Wow.
Read the whole article.
The Department of Defense (if this person is correct) is about to be kicked in the nuts.
A few weeks ago I predicted that a personnel cut to around 165,000 from 202,000 was possible. I thought I was being extreme.
To slash the Marines to below 150,000 is extreme. Crazy extreme.
Oh and for all my Navy readers, your cuts are just as brutal if not more so. Check this out....
The Navy will be reduced to eight aircraft carriers (from twelve planned) and seven air wings. Eight ballistic missile submarines will be cut from the planned force of 14, leaving just six. Building of nuclear attack submarines will be cut in half, leaving a force of 40 by 2020. The four active guided missile submarines would be cut, too. Destroyer building would be frozen and the new DDG-1000 destroyer program cancelled. Among other huge cuts, the fleet is to be reduced to 230 combat ships, eliminating 57 vessels from a current force level of 287.Are you an Army bubba? I feel your pain and Congress is about to apply it liberally (pun intended)...
Active duty Army personnel will be slashed from 562,400 to 360,000. That includes elimination of about five active-component brigade combat teams (the report is not exactly). The Army will also suffer a myriad of other cuts, including closure of overseas bases.Even the fly guys (Air Force) get a piece of this hurt...
The Air Force must retire six fighter air wings equivalents, and at the same time build 301 fewer F-35 fighters. The nuclear bomber force will be completely eliminated in the name of unilateral disarmament—the B-1 and B-2 and B-52 and other bombers will still be able to drop bombs, but their nuclear weapon wiring and controls will simply be removed. Procurement of the new refueling tanker and the C-17 cargo aircraft will be cancelled. Directed energy beam research and other advanced missile and space warfare defense projects will also be eliminated or curtailed.I don't know if this is real or just another proposal being floated by some "Think Tank" in someones' basement but to think that cuts this large are even being contemplated is...astonishing.
We couldn't do a repeat of Afghanistan. Iraq 1 would be impossible.
Considering our world wide responsibilities even doing another Grenada would be challenging.
Wow.
