What isn’t mentioned? Strong belief that this will have to repeat by January of 2014, and it could go back to 22 days. There’s enough hostile feelings about this now....but a repeat? A number of guys will just add up retirement time, and call it quits if they can.
Defense cuts pose an economic quandary for liberals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/defense-cuts-pose-an-economic-quandary-for-liberals/2013/04/28/6cc78b72-b01b-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html
as in all other govenment buracracies, there are far too many civilians in DOD. Leave unifrom personnel be, but cut 10% of the civilians, reassign the jobs to the remaining and watch efficiency go up and cost of doing business go down.