[Criminal Number 18F]

is will take an increase in active forces

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).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Terp]

To be fair I have to say that I was stationed overseas in Japan for 16 years of my 20 years in the Navy. The way things are done overseas most likely are quite differant the stateside. It's hard to get stateside civilian personnel to work in high cost areas such as Japan.