USFLTFORCOM? We don’t need no steenkin’ ‘lantic fleet.
Yeah, God forbit that we have any agency that encourages inter-service cooperation!
Joint Forces Command has always struggled to justify its existence. Most of its functions can be transferred to Northern Command without skipping a beat.
The only gubmint spending that this bunch of bozos can cut is in the military! Bunch of dumbells!
Joint Forces Command is where Odierno is headed in September. Wonder what is in his future?
The Kenyan Clown is determined to destroy our military.
Many, many contractors jumping over to work for the Government now. It’s been going on for months.
Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.
All this to advance his Socialism agenda.
>Congress turns its attention more to domestic priorities.
Just what we don’t need...more of our taxes spent on lazy welfare scumbags and leftist programs
to shore up their base of worthless human flesh. The best thing congress
could do would be to stay on vacation.
I’m a contractor here. Thanks 0bama. More reason to hate your effing Kenyan muslim guts.
There you go Virginia, thanks for your dumb vote for Obama in 08. Here’s the payback for daring to vote in a staunch republican Gov, Barry didnt like that snub.
Another Zero adminisration “economic” housing boost for the VA tidewater area.
Even a broken clock can get it right twice a day...lots of bureaucratic fat can be cut from our military (and cutting might even improve readiness).
And do we really need $400,000 shoulder-launched missiles when our enemies use $28 RPG’s?
As Zell Miller said... “SPITBALLS”!
LLS
When the Cold War ended, NATO restructured, and the SACLANT position went away. The problem was under Goldwater-Nichols, every single U.S. military unit in the world had to belong to some Unified Command. CONUS forces belonged to LANTCOM, regardless of if they were ultimately meant to fall under SACLANT in war.
LANTCOM was first reacronymed "USACOM", to reflect its lack of an Atlantic mission, and later was redesignated JFCOM, and CONUS forces remained assigned to JFCOM. JFCOM's missions were joint training, providing forces to other commands, and "Transformation". NATO created a "Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation" (SACT). Last year, SACT was taken over by Europe, leaving the JFCOM commander with no NATO role.
JFCOM's missions conflict with Goldwater-Nichols guidance which created the Vice Chairman of the JCS to handle joint coordination and transformation.
After 9/11, U.S. Northern Command was created. NORTHCOM was only assigned the CONUS military forces previously assigned to NORAD and a few other forces. NORTHCOM and JFCOM actually share their Navy component, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, the old Atlantic Fleet.
There was little reason for LANTCOM to continue under another name after the Cold War ended, and there was no reason for JFCOM to exist after NORTHCOM was created.
This action is long overdue. Reassign Army Forces Command, Air Force Air Combat Command, and Marine Corps Forces Command to NORTHCOM, assign the joint development role to JCS/J7, and the transformation role to Vice Chairman of the JCS, and jettison JFCOM for good.
but when Obama goes on a revenge mission on Virginia, you can guarantee, it will be more than just this that gets cut.
ping
JFCOM would be my guess.
Just watched Gates’ briefing. He’s directing the first two sets of manpower cuts in Pentagon senior staffs and some procedural “fixes.” The issue about USJFCOM is RECOMMENDED. Getting rid of USJFCOM isn’t quite so simple. Congress has to make that determination and it must go through the BRAC process. It’ll take several years to come to fruition, IF it even does.