Here is an article about what is happening locally to the Marine Corps. Like so many other professionals, I will probably leave the DOD next year, I will not wait to be cut and left floundering with a family to support. http://jdnews.com/military/II-mef-headquarters-to-relocate-as-corps-shrinks-to174a000-1-217777
While this may sound good, the world has not changed, it is a very dangerous place, these men and women will deploy until they are burned out, the good ones will leave the service for a better quality of life leaving us a hollowed out force similar if not worse than 1980. The next 9-11 strike we will be too weak to respond, but hey the EBT cards will work. This time it is the GOP who is to blame, they had an opportunity to lift sequestration and renegotiate so the DOD does not get hammered.
Sorry OldGoat - everybody is taking a hit. I may loose my job before this is over, but there are no sacred cows.
I hate to say it, but I am not sad to see the military getting cut.
I say this because I think the next target of the US military will be the US public.
I used to dismiss such talk. But after seeing how quickly park ranger of all people pulled out M4s and pointed them at citizens at war memorials, I realized that most soldiers, marines, and civilian police will not keep their oaths to defend the Constitution, but will rather just follow orders.
And, yes, I am ex-military. Never thought I’d have this opinion.