via the Washington Beacon.
If you think that its going to stop at 182,000 then you're smoking crack. All this is ahead of any budget cuts which are a certainty.
The United States Marine Corps is set to shed more than 20,000 active duty positions in the coming years and have already commenced a process meant to force some senior officers into an early retirement.The Army is going to shed 60,000 boatspaces.
The Marines are on course to cut around 4,000 positions a year through 2017, decreasing the total number of Marines to 182,100 from its peak last year of 202,100, according to a major scale-down order that was quietly issued last year.
The reduction in forces could leave the elite fighting force underprepared to battle multiple regional threats, particularly those in the Middle East, according to military experts.
If you think that its going to stop at 182,000 then you're smoking crack. All this is ahead of any budget cuts which are a certainty.
People, Ideas, Hardware....well, so much for people. Ideas? I doubt we'll see ideas valued either.
ReplyDeleteAny President from any party is going to be face with the budget issue, so the Obama bashing is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteBeside, it isn't Obama who is making the recommendations to the service on how to cut costs, its the services recommending to Obama how cuts, if imposed, should be implemented. The service Chiefs have made the decision to sacrifice personnel and institutional knowledge to save platforms and technology.
and far be it that the service chiefs decide to reduce the number of Flag officers/GOWS and redundant commands. Or re-organize the service to remove Army and Corps level units because we'll never see another mass mobilization where entire Army corps..
While the budget issue sucks the high hard one, our military's leaders have chosen to follow convention and instead of reform, they've chosen personnel reductions.
sad days