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I don’t know about the Majors but they NEED their Captains
CPT’s make up most of the pilots and also Company leaders .
They are invaluable . As long as they are not JAGs
I look forward to the headline : U.S. Military to disband the JAG Corps . That would be a HUGE savings and an immense benefit to our troops .
Not just the Army:
Need to pare down the Flag officers (Generals) and Colonels. Releasing just Majors and Captains leaves the US Army top-heavy, and, releasing higher ranks means fewer high end salaries
We need more social workers and welfare cases and illegal aliens than people to defend our nation, don’t we?
They are destroying the continuity (and ability) of our armed services (now and future). Enough said!
The military did exactly the same thing in the early 1990s, after the end of the Cold War. Both then and now, steep reductions in active duty troop strength require early separation of officers. Simple math.
will they get a trip to hawaii?
The Army’s drawdown plan is a balanced approach that will get us all killed or allow our enemies an open door. Thier plan is working well
Obviously too many for Obama to boot out on his own.
just another way to weed out those who might oppose nobama in his upcoming coup before the 2016 elections
Piece by piece the military is being done away with. Getting rid of the most experienced senior military leaders, now the best portion of the experienced mid level leaders. The enlisted ranks have been in the thinning process for years ... multitudes of senior enlisted being forced to leave the ranks.
Without experienced Captains and senior enlisted, you have no military.
I imagine Barry needs the money to prepare welcome baskets for his 30 to 45 million illegal aliens when the GOP gives them all amnesty.
The military is being dismantled block by block at an accelerating pace.
We are like a snow ball rolling down a hill going faster and faster until we explode when we hit bottom.
I’m having days now when I feel so heart sick may vomit.
Obama admin are fools to do this.
In 1940, the Army had 269,023 (including Air Corps) Navy was at just under 170,000, and there were 28,345 Marines for a total of under 500,000. Today, the army alone (without the Air Corps) is larger than that, and the total is more than 3 times higher.
Perhaps with a smaller military, we wouldn’t feel that we should be the world’s policeman, and we could avoid some of our foreign entanglements.
Oh, Good, get rid of mega amounts of the military which Hussein hates, and use that saved money to extend unemployment benefits and add more people to it since jobs are disappearing, until 2050.
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I know a number of officers leaving ASAP anyway. Actually, I know a number of service members leaving, officers and otherwise. I was stunned that a prior infantry Marine that had attended the Army Ranger school and Marine Scout/Sniper school then went on to become an Army Warrant Officer 4 Apache pilot that then became a Personnel Recovery officer, and has only 21 years in, decided to retire this month. He has an outstanding and remarkable career with multiple combat tours and he finds it is time to leave. No real reason, just the Army has become unpalatable anymore. Sad, just sad.
They keyword here is 'could'. I remember a few years back in the Navy (where I serve) there was a big whip-de-doo about 'thousands of Chiefs" facing retention boards. In the end, I think about 18 of them were canned.
I'll reserve my outrage until I see what happens.
And if anyone thinks this is part of Obama's mythological "military purge" please save it... It's not.