via National Defense Magazine.
1. Are we going to see a couple of battalions case their colors?
2. How are you going to plus size the Marine Special Forces and reduce the number of Marines at the same time?
3. How low can we go? Is 150,000 the number he's talking or God forbid could it be even lower????
Totally depressing news. You're going to have some outstanding Marines forced out and some ass kissers are going to be retained. The Commandant needs to fix the selection board process ASAP.
Former Secretary Robert Gates before his departure gave his approval to the 186,800 number, “but that was before everything began to unravel financially,” Amos said.Read the whole thing but that makes me wonder a couple of things...
“My sense is that we’re probably going to go lower than that. I can’t tell you how much lower because that decision has not been made yet,” he added. “We are going to come down well below 186,800,” he said. “I think we’re going to be OK. I think we will still be able to do what our nation expects of us.”
However, there will be a reduction in capacity, which he described as “depth on the bench.” If there are simultaneous events occurring in three parts of the world that the Marine Corps normally would respond to, it may mean it could only carry out operations in two of them, he added.
1. Are we going to see a couple of battalions case their colors?
2. How are you going to plus size the Marine Special Forces and reduce the number of Marines at the same time?
3. How low can we go? Is 150,000 the number he's talking or God forbid could it be even lower????
Totally depressing news. You're going to have some outstanding Marines forced out and some ass kissers are going to be retained. The Commandant needs to fix the selection board process ASAP.
