Army to cut brigades at 10 U.S. bases

CBS News ^ | June 25, 2013

[centurion316]

No, this is not related to BRAC. This is a reduction in Army end strength that has been in the works for several years. The Obama Administration wants a smaller military so that they can spend more money on direct payments to Democrat voters. The Army always take the biggest hit when these these happen, just like they always have the lion’s share of the fight when we go to war.

Here is my summary of the cuts from another thread:

3d Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Ft. Bliss, TX

4th Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, Ft. Bragg, NC

4th Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Ft. Campbell, KY

3d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Ft. Carson, CO

3d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Ft. Drum, NY

4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Ft. Hood, TX

3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Ft. Knox, KY

4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Ft. Riley, KS

2d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, Ft. Stewart, GA

4th Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, Jt. Base Lewis-McChord

Also the 170th and 172d Infantry Brigades in Germany who are already undergoing inactivation.

Unaffected are the 25th Infantry Division (2 Brigades in Hawaii, 2 in Alaska); the 2d Cavalry Regiment, Germany; the 3d Cavalry Regiment, Ft. Hood; and the 173d Airborne Brigade, Italy. Each remaining brigade will have 3 maneuver battalions instead of the current 2, and the engineer battalions come back to the brigades. The total cuts include 6 heavy brigades, 5 light brigades, and 1 Stryker brigade. Expect some reflagging at battalion and brigade level as the sort this all out. The addition of the 3d maneuver battalion is a good thing, but the overall reduction of the Army makes it more likely that some country hostile to our interests will attempt to intimidate us.

[GreyFriar]

And think of the “peace dividend” the democrats can now spend on social welfare programs after cutting 80,000 out of the Army.

[nascarnation]

Why not keep the soldiers on the payroll and dispatch them to the community organizer ranks?

Sorry son, you may have signed up for the Army, but you’re going into the Americorps.

[GreyFriar]

ASOC, ninety to ninety=five percent of the Cold War Army bases in Europe are already closed. The only bases left are Ramstein AFB, Weisbaden which is the new USAREUR HQ, EUCOM HQ in Stuttgart and a brigade at Grafenwoehr in Barvaria. All of the V & VII corps posts were turned over to the German government. Baumholder is almost closed now. The last M1 tank left Germany about 6 months ago. There is the 2nd ACR with Stryker infantry vehicles at Graf and the 173rd Abn Bde at Vincenzio, Italy.