Posted on 07/16/2013 6:32:43 PM PDT by Nachum
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that he has ordered a 20 percent cut in the number of top brass and senior civilians at the Pentagon by 2019, the latest attempt to shrink the military bureaucracy after years of heady growth. Hagels directive could force the Pentagon and military command staffs to shed an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jobs. Thats a tiny percentage of the Defense Departments 2.1 million active-duty troops and civilian employees, but analysts said it would be a symbolically important trimming of the upper branches of the bureaucracy, which has proved to be resistant to past
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And I nominate Allen West to decide whom to cut. A pissed off retired Lieutenant Colonel with no love for the bass rather than Flag Officers trying to protect themselves.
Ronald Reagan: “Peace through Strength.”
Barack Obama: “War through Weakness.”
Count on it. Some things are inevitable.
‘Si vis pacem, para bellum.’
Well, that’s another way to win the military over to supporting the marxist muzzie coup when the rest of us go Egypt.
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Hagel was brought in to dismantle the military and make sure that what is left is run by Obama’s homo bootlickers.
and just wtf have general occifers done for we the sheeple lately, huh?????
.....EXACTLY !!!!!
-Dick G
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Most of the commentors on this thread clearly do not understand how generals and admirals (flag officers) are selected, promoted, and employed. The career life expectancy of flag officers is 6 - 10 years. Officers are selected for flag rank after 20+ years service in the lower ranks and they will serve another 6 to 10 years in the flag ranks before retirement. A select few may serve for as many as 15 years, but they are very much the exception.
Since these cuts are to be made by 2019, this change won’t affect currently serving flag officers, it will affect today’s Lieutenant Colonels, Commanders, Colonels, and Captains. They will be selected for flag rank at slightly lower rates.
This will also not affect the disturbing trend to politically compliant flag officers. These men and women are selected for advancement and assignment after they have become flag officers, not before. Once they demonstrate their willingness to carry the political torch, they move ahead in the flag officer hierarchy. This carbuncle on our military is not going away.
The cuts are a good thing, but do not represent a serious program of reform, in fact it’s probably an indication of the opposite.
me arse bleeds fer ‘em...
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Semper Chesty/Georgie/Etc.!
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Stalin would have just given them a one-way ticket to the Lubyanka.
” Hagel was brought in to dismantle the military and make sure that what is left is run by Obamas homo bootlickers.”
My firm belief as well.
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