Exactly the point I was trying to make. Why should they be reserve units? Make them Active Units and then no problemo!!! But we no this will take an increase in active forces and I believe Congress has to approve the number increase.
Not if we're smart about contracting. For instance, the US Army has about 50,000 personnel clerks (CMF 71) on active duty. Visiting a personnel office is like going to the DMV -- stupid, apathetic people moving like a glacier with polio.
You could do the whole thing with a check to a contractor and 500 auditors and compliance clerks, for probably a quarter of the money (we are going to be paying these worthless Army clerks a pension for life... they will never take a risk, or fire a shot in anger... why?)
I was never in the Navy, so I can't speak to their way of doing things. I have dealt with an Air Force personnel office, and it was two people and a bunch of automation (the Army would have staffed an equivalent with a platoon of thirty to forty useless mouths to feed).
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