Posted on 10/22/2013 8:38:26 AM PDT by george76
While the president of the United States pitched his crumbling healthcare program like a late-night infomercial barker, the Army's chief of staff made a shocking admission about national defense.
Gen. Ray Odierno told a Washington conference Monday that the U.S. Army had not conducted any training in the last six months of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
And, he said, there currently are only two Army brigades rated combat-ready. That's a total of between 7,000 to 10,000 troops and less than one-third what the combat veteran regards as necessary for proper national security.
"Right now," Odierno said, "we have in the Army two brigades that are trained. That's it. Two."
Odierno also revealed that troops shipping out to Afghanistan now are prepared only to train and assist Afghan troops, not to conduct combat operations themselves. But, of course, there's no guarantee the Americans won't find themselves in combat while accompanying Afghan soldiers.
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0 is training his civilian forces.
This is a disgrace to all Americans.
This is a big admission by Odierno. He just put his career on the line. Finally, some moral courage. Hopefully, it’s contagious.
It is a deliberate attempt to further weaken our military, orders direct from the CIC.
Good God, he ( Soetero) kicks out generals and admirals and now this? What next? raising Tri Care rates? More ROE’s in Afghanistan?
Good God, he ( Soetero) kicks out generals and admirals and now this? What next? raising Tri Care rates? More ROE’s in Afghanistan?
Good God, he ( Soetero) kicks out generals and admirals and now this? What next? raising Tri Care rates? More ROE’s in Afghanistan?
omg
By choice. Why do we have a military? Is it just to employ a fat officer corps? If they’re not training then somebody needs to get fired, not just one but thousands.
There has been NO letup in the attacks on US citizens,
US veterans, and the arming of al Qaeda.
Man, I bet those guys are going bonkers not having anything to do. What a de-motivational tool is their community-organizer-in-chief. The Marines are still trainin cause it’s been rainin.
And you know the police are training.
When the Kenyan said he wanted a civil security force as well funded and strong as the US military who knew he would do it by whittling the military down to the size of the capitol police? A few more cuts and I can take those guys on myself-—fix bayonets-—yooooo.-———————Semper Fi
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