[trisham]

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

~Plato

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[MichaelCorleone]

Is this some derivative of ‘the purge’?

[null and void]

In before the FR naysayers come by to assure us that this is normal, every president does it, and there is no purge...

[MortMan]

Apparentlt outsourcing isn’t just for IT any more.

[Gaffer]

Well. Where we have a Hitler-like bunkerocracy like we have with the Obama administration, either commanding stupidly from the rear, foregoing Generals’ inputs altogether or commanding not-at-all (as in Benghazi), it seems these 3 and 4 Stars are about as useful as teats on a bull, doesn’t it. Why not strip them of their token power?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

New Air Force Command announced:
Operations, Bases, Arms, Materiel, Authority (OBAMA) Command

[Linda Frances]

Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center = White House.

[mad_as_he$$]

Actually this maybe a good idea. I have dealt with three and four stars from all branches that didn't know jack about infrastructure and were lied to about issues and capabilities from underlings and the Generals didn't know enough to call BS.

[Izzy Dunne]

And there will be a five-year plan for all of the bases, right?

[HotHunt]

This is the Obama administration’s big, central government being forced on the military. Just as this big, central government can’t adequately micromanage the affairs of the entire country, this plan will be a disaster as top heavy managers at this new control center will fail miserably in their efforts to manage too many diverse things at once. Talk about the waste in the military budget now for procurement and contracts, wait until there is no one to watch the till.

This is just another aspect of the socialist progressives tightening their control over the country. First, it was the economy, then healthcare, then energy, now the military. Soon, big government will be just a communist dictator with czars to do his bidding.

[onedoug]

Perhaps the homosexualization of our military can be more easily inserted by a more centralized command structure.

[Parmy]

This will be a ‘SNAFU’ that will evolve into ‘FUBAR’.

[Night Hides Not]

Not much different from the structure of Tactical Fighter Wings: you have a Wing Commander for Flight Ops, and a Base Commander for logistics, personnel, etc. Both were Bird Colonels, although the Wing Commander was the ultimate person in charge.

When I was a Battalion S-4 (Supply Officer), the Battalion Commander let me run my shop. I caught hell when he thought I did something wrong, but that only happened a few times in 18 months. Never bothered me...I was just a 1LT, ass chewings were expected.

[Smokin' Joe]

I can see all the less redundancy and saved money...

And a downside. Someone is going to decide how much fuel is needed, whether your base is in Alaska or Florida, for instance. The people making the decisions affecting logistics (what is actually allocated) will not be those familiar with the needs of the individual bases.

I have seen this in corporate infrastructures, and the results may look good on a balance sheet somewhere, but result in off-the-books rat-holing of essential supplies, which means the actual amount used and the official amount used will never be the same numbers.

Either that or performance is negatively impacted.

I can also see where the logistical end could be manipulated to impair the mission tasking of any given base, intentionally. With the amount of apparent infiltration of our Government by persons at high levels who may be less than trustworthy when it comes to having the United States' best interests in mind, this is a dangerous level of authority to concentrate anywhere.

[jagusafr]

Absolute idiocy. Installation commanders used to control 80% of their budgets. Now they control only 12%, yet are still being told to get the mission done while having to go hat-in-hand to the fricking FINANCE people to free up money.

Did I mention this is absolute idiocy?

Colonel, USAFR

[centurion316]

The Army has something called the Installation Management Command (IMCOM) that has been doing very similar things for years. The Commanding General focuses on operational mission requirement and has a Garrison Commander who runs the installation, reporting up the IMCOM chain.

When I was a Garrison Commander, there was no IMCOM and I worked for the CG. When he told me to close the golf course, I closed the golf course. When the Chief of Staff of the Army told him to reopen the golf course, I reopened the golf course. That’s the way these things work.

[TADSLOS]

The Army did this over a decade ago, creating the Installation Management Command (IMCOM)(spit). Commanders had their authority stripped from them at that point and replaced with a multi-layered bureaucracy of pencil pushers, environmentalists and agenda pimps.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[TBP]

Some of these generals might not implement the new ways of doing things fast enough for the centralizers, so we’ll do it for them.

[DesScorp]

The Army and Navy have done it this way for years. And I think USAF should be re-absorbed into the Army anyway.