As the Army continues to reduce its total force to under a million regular, guard and reservists by 2018, the service is preparing to cut another 14,000 soldiers.
Of those 14,000 the Army needs to cut to reach its intended numbers, 10,000 will be officers, said Gen. Daniel Allyn, vice chief of staff of the Army.
The Army has been planning to reduce its military personnel from 1.3 million to 980,000 since the release of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.
“With 186,000 deployed on a daily basis in 140 countries, you understand my discomfort with trying to continue to meet emergent demands and current operations with a force that is getting smaller,” Allyn said during a March 15 Senate Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee hearing.
The Army currently has 482,000 active-duty soldiers. That will be reduced to 475,000 by the end of fiscal 2016. The number will be further reduced to 450,000 by 2018.
Allyn said the soldiers who were cut in previous rounds of layoffs were highly seasoned.
“Over 50 percent of those we were asking to separate involuntarily had two or more combat deployments, so these are all soldiers that have answered the call of the nation; they have served admirably and because of the program force structure we must separate [from] them,” Allyn said.
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8 comments:
Give Trump a chance and he'll restore our military as well as respect them. Remember, for we have been living in a Third World Government mentality the past 7 years.
Good ole Obama , commander and thief
Our military is now a joke and half are muslims.
You guys do realize that the cycle of war time build ups and post war reductions is quite normal under any president right?
Stupid is as stupid does.
I hope they do it by performance - at least!
They need to get rid of all of the affirmative action promotees that are incompetent.
Seen too many in my career!
$600 billion dollars a year (and that doesn't include all of the covert spending). We can afford to cut our defense budget. Truthfully, it's the only way we'll ever get spending under control.
We need to actually start using our military for good use. Let them patrol our streets and kill drug dealers and users, if we are fighting a "Drug War", well than lets really fight it. Also put our soldiers on our boarders like other countries, and give them the order to shoot and kill invaders. We need to fully militarize our boarders.
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