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Posted: 7/7/2015 4:41:53 PM EDT
The U.S. Army plans to cut 40,000 troops over the next two years, affecting all its domestic and foreign posts, USA Today reported on Tuesday, citing a plan it said was due to be announced this week. It said the plan also called for cutting 17,000 civilian employees, it added. |
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They keep this up,,,,, wont be much resistance to government take over foreign or domestic
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They will start by booting EVERYONE with tattoos....inkies beware!
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Yeah, cause we don't need no stinking troops if we ain't gonna fight no wars!
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I wonder how many billets for General Officers were eliminated?
Oh, fucking wait, we have just as many Generals as we did in 1945! Thank god, those guys are awesome. Pretty soon "Squad Leader" will be a GO billet. |
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Quoted: No all white males are being kicked out cause racism and patriarchy. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: They will start by booting EVERYONE with tattoos....inkies beware! No all white males are being kicked out cause racism and patriarchy. |
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If something does happen in the future, they will be scrambling and lowering the standards.
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I wonder how many billets for General Officers were eliminated? Oh, fucking wait, we have just as many Generals as we did in 1945! Thank god, those guys are awesome. Pretty soon "Squad Leader" will be a GO billet. View Quote No shit, we need some serious cuts at the O-6 to O-10 level. Like 40% across DoD. |
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Quoted: No shit, we need some serious cuts at the O-6 to O-10 level. Like 40% across DoD. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I wonder how many billets for General Officers were eliminated? Oh, fucking wait, we have just as many Generals as we did in 1945! Thank god, those guys are awesome. Pretty soon "Squad Leader" will be a GO billet. No shit, we need some serious cuts at the O-6 to O-10 level. Like 40% across DoD. This is true... can we at least start with O-4/5s that are in BCTs and still have fuzzy rights? |
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This is what America wanted (and quite a few here in GD as well).
We get into a fight with more casualties than we had in Iraq and the draft notices will start flying after the IRR has been depleted. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be epic. |
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This is true... can we at least start with O-4/5s that are in BCTs and still have fuzzy rights? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I wonder how many billets for General Officers were eliminated? Oh, fucking wait, we have just as many Generals as we did in 1945! Thank god, those guys are awesome. Pretty soon "Squad Leader" will be a GO billet. No shit, we need some serious cuts at the O-6 to O-10 level. Like 40% across DoD. This is true... can we at least start with O-4/5s that are in BCTs and still have fuzzy rights? It's an inevitable consequence of getting rid of the higher level positions. It's like trickle down economics. |
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That money can be used to buy votes.
GIs don't vote correctly, anyway. |
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The increase in the number of senior positions and grade inflation is because of the growth of government and the plethora of laws passed that actually specify the grade of the DoD representative
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Our soldiers are getting thrown under the bus again. And yet no talk of getting rid of the 30+ million (and climbing) illegal aliens sucking our social services, schools, jails, hospitals and other taxpayer funded institutions dry. No talk of cutting foreign aid, welfare, section 8, EBT, SNAP, TANF, WIC, Obama phones, corporate welfare or tax payer funded bailouts for too big to fail banks.
Maybe we should consider cutting all the useless, unauthorized, duplicate and bloated Gov agencies in DC first before we even think about cutting the military and direct support DoD civilians. I have a very bad feeling in the near future we are going to witness something absolutely catastrophic happen to our once proud, strong and moral country. We are witnessing this republic slowly commit national suicide and I don’t know if we are going to be able to recover. |
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This is what America wanted (and quite a few here in GD as well). We get into a fight with more casualties than we had in Iraq and the draft notices will start flying after the IRR has been depleted. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be epic. Amen Brother... Bring on the draft....get those fat fucks off the xbox and onto the real battlefield. |
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The increase in the number of senior positions and grade inflation is because of the growth of government and the plethora of laws passed that actually specify the grade of the DoD representative View Quote And I'm sure that Generals and aspiring Generals played no part in that development. |
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Quoted: Bring on the draft....get those fat fucks off the xbox and onto the real battlefield. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This is what America wanted (and quite a few here in GD as well). We get into a fight with more casualties than we had in Iraq and the draft notices will start flying after the IRR has been depleted. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be epic. Amen Brother... Bring on the draft....get those fat fucks off the xbox and onto the real battlefield. Wider is better for bullet sponges? |
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The increase in the number of senior positions and grade inflation is because of the growth of government and the plethora of laws passed that actually specify the grade of the DoD representative View Quote They managed to defy the Secdef (Hagel) when he ordered cuts. I guess it's chess vs checkers when you're a flag grade: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/07/24/the-pentagon-has-too-many-troops The billions we spend each year on the DV airlift program alone would fucking stun the American people. Nothing is to good for our rock stars Generals, though. |
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And I'm sure that Generals and aspiring Generals played no part in that development. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The increase in the number of senior positions and grade inflation is because of the growth of government and the plethora of laws passed that actually specify the grade of the DoD representative And I'm sure that Generals and aspiring Generals played no part in that development. The whole of the Government does |
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They could start by discharging all of the pregnant females as they are not eligible for deployment.
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They managed to defy the Secdef (Hagel) when he ordered cuts. I guess it's chess vs checkers when you're a flag grade: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/07/24/the-pentagon-has-too-many-troops The billions we spend each year on the DV airlift program alone would fucking stun the American people. Nothing is to good for our rock stars Generals, though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The increase in the number of senior positions and grade inflation is because of the growth of government and the plethora of laws passed that actually specify the grade of the DoD representative They managed to defy the Secdef (Hagel) when he ordered cuts. I guess it's chess vs checkers when you're a flag grade: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/07/24/the-pentagon-has-too-many-troops The billions we spend each year on the DV airlift program alone would fucking stun the American people. Nothing is to good for our rock stars Generals, though. Funny thing happen when the SECDEFs (actually ordered under Gates and Panetta) ordered reductions three of the four services ignored him and actually increased their totals hedging for when cuts were put in law they would maintain what they thought they needed because they would only loose their previous plus UPS. |
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They could start by discharging all of the pregnant females as they are not eligible for deployment. View Quote Are you kidding? They get a year off now (counting their light duty and no chemicals/noises/vibrations/work/deployment during the 9 month period and four and a half months off). Hell all they have to do is pop a kid out once a year and they never have to take a single PT test. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1764453_Navy_triples_paid_maternity_leave_to_18_weeks.html My Mom had 8 kids in 10 years. She could have been a general. |
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40,000 more people looking for jobs over the next two years!
Fucking brilliant! |
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Idiots who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it. Soviet union fell, China will suffer soon enough - but we have to go balls to the wall socialist, because that is what progressive has been for the last 130 year.
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They're cutting 17K civilians too.
Damn. I'm glad I turned down that job at Aberdeen Proving Ground a couple months ago. |
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Why dont they just slow down the pipeline?
Or do we prefer untrained E1s to guys that know their jobs? |
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So We shouldn't be at war unless it's an attack on US soil and if that happens start up the draft.
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Yep, when cuts need to be made, the liberals always first start slashing the military. They can't take a penny from the money used for illegal aliens, Obamacare, Obamaphones and all the other socialist bullshit they spend OUR money on. But they most certainly can make drastic cuts to one of the few things Federal government actually has a responsibility in maintaining....a strong national defense.
I pray we don't get into a major war anytime soon. Our military was barely adequate in terms of overall size following the "Grow the Army Plan" initiated by the Bush administration. At the rate we are going, we aren't going to be able to deploy more than one fucking BCT at a time within a few years. |
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Yep, when cuts need to be made, the liberals always first start slashing the military. They can't take a penny from the money used for illegal aliens, Obamacare, Obamaphones and all the other socialist bullshit they spend OUR money on. But they most certainly can make drastic cuts to one of the few things Federal government actually has a responsibility in maintaining....a strong national defense. I pray we don't get into a major war anytime soon. Our military was barely adequate in terms of overall size following the "Grow the Army Plan" initiated by the Bush administration. At the rate we are going, we aren't going to be able to deploy more than one fucking BCT at a time within a few years. View Quote I think welfare should be cut out all together. |
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Yep, when cuts need to be made, the liberals always first start slashing the military. They can't take a penny from the money used for illegal aliens, Obamacare, Obamaphones and all the other socialist bullshit they spend OUR money on. But they most certainly can make drastic cuts to one of the few things Federal government actually has a responsibility in maintaining....a strong national defense. I pray we don't get into a major war anytime soon. Our military was barely adequate in terms of overall size following the "Grow the Army Plan" initiated by the Bush administration. At the rate we are going, we aren't going to be able to deploy more than one fucking BCT at a time within a few years. View Quote Well we'll only have one so that's a good readiness stat |
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The way things are going 40k will be leaving on their own.
Hardly any soldiers are reuping, they are taking their college money and running. Hell my old company on has one E7 PSG and a E7 First SGT. soldiers are fed up and the senior guys are just waiting until they hit 20yrs. Sick of sharp, trannys, soon to be female Infantry PLs and other assorted BS |
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The way things are going 40k will be leaving on their own. Hardly any soldiers are reuping, they are taking their college money and running. Hell my old company on has one E7 PSG and a E7 First SGT. soldiers are fed up and the senior guys are just waiting until they hit 20yrs. Sick of sharp, trannys, soon to be female Infantry PLs and other assorted BS View Quote troof. I can't wait to get out. |
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The way things are going 40k will be leaving on their own. Hardly any soldiers are reuping, they are taking their college money and running. Hell my old company on has one E7 PSG and a E7 First SGT. soldiers are fed up and the senior guys are just waiting until they hit 20yrs. Sick of sharp, trannys, soon to be female Infantry PLs and other assorted BS View Quote The writing was on the wall in 2009/2010 for me. My brother stayed in and has 13 years in. He's been contemplating civillian options. |
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