Army officials on ‘pink slip’ controversy: We don’t have a choice

The Washington Post ^ | July 23, 2014 | Dan Lamothe

[Timber Rattler]

For weeks, the Army has been taking a verbal beating for sending “pink slips” to officers while they were deployed. It was no joke or Internet rumor, either: About 1,100 captains received notice last month that they would be required to leave active duty within a year as the service shrinks, and some of them were in Afghanistan and other volatile areas.

Reaction was swift. It was a “stunning display of callousness,” one Army veteran wrote earlier this month in the New York Daily News. It was an “outrageous and and heartless way to ‘thank’ combat veterans,” responded one writer on Townhall.com. It showed that President Obama was “putting domestic politics ahead of the security of our nation,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R.-Okla.). And those were some of the more civil reactions.

[Cyclone59]

Yet at the same time Bergdahl got pay raises and promotions while training his new friends....

[wdk535]

“Congressionally mandated”? I wonder...