Well, we are closing down Korea, but we need higher authorized end strength. Helps with the rotations. That's just common sense.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
What do you mean by "Be seeing you" Chris? I'm a veteran and am not worried if there is a draft. I'm not medically able to serve anyway, unfortunately, or else I would be seeing you.
It's a bit more than a few troops. The army is granstanding for 25Billion more dollars. Money doesnt grow on trees. It will have to come from the other services, who are taking cuts as well to maintain opstempo and purchase new weapons systems.
Having 2 million folks under arms, they should be able to make accomodations for rotations in theater without adding 100K more troops.
If they want more money for tanks and artillery, which is an Army thing, they wont get it. If they ask for transformational systems that take less manpower, they can probably get it.
Wow, took long enough.
The brass didn't want to admit they need a larger force. Just looking at the rotation schedule for active and reserve units, it was obvious they needed more forces. The question is how soon could they even stand up more units.