I can't forget...I lived through it. I remember when there was a rash of suicides in the 10th Mountain Div because they were on such a heavy deployment schedule.
When the 1st Armored Div was in a non deployable status because of shrofalls in readiness and manning.
And I remember Algore GLOATING in a stump speech about how his re-inventing government plan cut "400 thousand jobs from the Federal payroll" and if he was elected President "not one single job" would be added.
And people that weren't cognizent of politics then or the military then need to know these things before they start hearing the reckless ranting soundbites being played by the DBM trying to lay all of this at the Presidents doorstep.
Anyone with half a brain would have know to have maintained our military strength and even slowly increased it in the world we live in,but no! We got algorr and bubba instead,and well... here we are, with 400,000 fewer troops.
The problem is that we have become accustomed to thinking in terms of a socialist agenda! We need, more Medicare, more free this, more free that, instead of thinking about the basics of what the country needs and why it was formed, which is security and safety in order to live as free men. We need to get back on track.