Army to Force out 550 Majors; Some in Afghanistan

ABC News ^ | August 1, 2014 | By LOLITA C. BALDOR - AP

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Army says it will soon notify 550 majors that they must leave the service by next spring as part of a budget-driven downsizing of the service.

Some of those soldiers will get the bad news while they are on the front lines in Afghanistan.

The Army has close to 514,000 soldiers now, but due to budget cuts must be down to 510,000 by October, and down to 490,000 by October 2015.

[real saxophonist]

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[Tailback]

RE: Post #30

BINGO!

My SGM in Germany was a 1LT in Vietnam that got RIF’ted. He voluntarily took a bust to E-7 and stayed in for 30 years.

I was in a unit with a former Full Bird Colonel chopper pilot that flew medevac’s in Korea and Vietnam. When he could no longer pass a flight physical, he retired from the Army, joined the National Guard, and took a bust to E-5 to become a company armorer.

I was struggling with my PT test in the Army Guard due to arthritis and shoulder injuries as a garbage man. I joined the Air Guard, took a bust to E-5, and finished out my 20.

If you REALLY love the military, there’s a place for you somewhere.

[VerySadAmerican]

Obama and his liberal worshippers don’t give a damn about 3% of the population that are gay. It’s just part of the plan to destroy this country.

[huldah1776]

Luv ya! It is still the same today.

[huldah1776]

Obama military downsizing leaves U.S. too weak to counter global threats, panel finds

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3187893/posts

[Salvation]

Something is very wrong here.

Throw Obama out of office.

[fr_freak]

Lol - a “fool without equal”? We’ve been heading down the slow road of oppressive socialism for decades. Only an idiot would think that Romney was going to reverse course. When I see conservatives get mad that Romney wasn’t elected, all I see is selfish people who wanted to kick the can down the road a little further so that their kids or grandkids would have to deal with the cleanup. Bah

[Travis McGee]

Morale check.

[MaxMax]

Our enemies are emboldened by this, but Obama' weakness first. The Dems
are welcoming an attack and will probably fund it.

[Delmarksman]

+1, I got out because of the Graham-Rudman bill in 1987. Everybody’s favorite “Holy Grail President” Ronald Reagan was in charge at the time.

This is nothing new and has all happened before.

[Mr Rogers]

” As my battalion commander told me when I left Vietnam: “You can love the Army all you want, it’s never going to love you back”

There is no purge, that’s a myth. What is going on is quite real and that’s the complete destruction of our military capability, especially the Army. But, what the hell, there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats.”

Worth repeating. When I was in the USAF, I sometimes told subordinates what your battalion commander said about the Army, only using the USAF instead. When the cuts came, they often seemed to have pulled the names out of a hat.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[G Larry]

I’ve done the math and forcing out 1 CIC would do more for the National Security and Economy of this country than the dismissal of any number of Majors.

[lightman]

That’s what you call a Major Purge...

...initiated by a major azzhole.

[Graewoulf]

Documentation File on the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro a former Foreign Student from Indonesia, and still a legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[ronnyquest]

Count on it. If I recall correctly, those surveys were under Bush, Sr. and again under Clinton. Neither time would any of us fire on American citizens. We were Airborne Infantry. As I understand it, a preponderance of pogues (POGs) declared that they would fire on American citizens as ordered. That tickles me a bit.

I have a friend who was Marine Infantry. His experience is much the same as mine although, being Marines, most of them either destroyed the survey outright, returned it with choice words written in black marker, or, as one did, returned it crumpled with a smear of feces on it and a note regarding what the Marines thought about their survey.

[StraysDaddy]

When I see conservatives get mad that Romney wasn’t elected, all I see is selfish people who wanted to kick the can down the road a little further so that their kids or grandkids would have to deal with the cleanup. Bah

So you showed them and stayed home....and help elect obama who is destroying our country...if that isn't a "fool without equal" I don't know what is.....and you throw out the word "selfish"...

[fr_freak]

So you showed them and stayed home....and help elect obama who is destroying our country...if that isn't a "fool without equal" I don't know what is.....and you throw out the word "selfish"...

Actually, I was going to vote third party because Romney is nothing but Democrat-lite, but I lost my nerve at the last minute and voted for Romney (not that it ever matters - I'm from California). For all those (conservatives) who decided not to vote Romney, I fully respect their decision.

Here's what I don't do: waste time whining about how some people decided not to vote for a guy that we would have reviled here at FR if he had been running as a Dem. The sh*t was going to hit the fan in this country (and the world) eventually because this country has been steadily moving left for decades. Romney is PART of that leftward movement. I'm glad the sh*t is hitting the fan NOW so that maybe I can do my part and absorb some of the pain so that the next generations don't have to. Selfish idiots wish we could have voted in socialist lite so that we could have eeked out another couple of decades before it all fell apart, so they can "get theirs" and to hell with the following generations. People like that make me sick.

[chessplayer]

Elections have consequences.

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They sure do. Truman drastically reduced the size of the military after WWII. Eisenhower reduced it even further. I am sure many who wanted to stay in were told they had to leave. This always happens at the end of wars. Always.