80000 over two years, was supposed to be four..... On Oct 22, 2013 10:05 PM, "Bruce Sorge" <sor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well I can tell you that the military is being hit hard for spending cuts. > > First of all, General Odierno recently said that there are only two > Brigade Combat Teams that are ready for combat. Two out of the 43 we > currently have. This is due to sequestration, which means that the DOD has > to make massive spending cuts. Because of this, Parts and maintenance is > taking a serious hit as well as training. Where the mechanized units used > to go to Fort Irwin for their annual combat readiness training exercise, > and light infantry units would go to Fort Polk for theirs, the only ones > that get to go now are units that are deploying. Training at home station > is being cut or watered down as well because units dont have the funds. > Taking even a company out to the field for a few days of training costs a > lot of money. Instead, soldiers are now heading back to the dining > facilities to perform KP, and are manning the gates at stateside > installations, because they cant afford the contract labor that did this > for the last several years. > > The plan to cut the number of BCTs by 10 over the next four years has > been accelerated to two years. > > Also, the Army was supposed to cut 42,000 soldiers by 2017, now that has > been accelerated to 2015. > > The Army was operating on their 2012 budget for all of 2013 (Fiscal year > which is october - september) and now for FY 2014, so they cant afford > anything anymore. The only places that are getting any money are places > like here (Fort Benning), because its a basic training post. They cant > water down new recruits training,,,yet. Give it time though and well see > it. One basic training company did have to shave off five days of their > training cycle though because they cant afford to send the new soldiers > home for the holidays, then fly them back to Ga to finish up their > training. Fortunately the drill sergeants are thinking outside the box and > they are going to have the soldiers do all of their training, and for the > last week where they clean gear and weapons, they are going to be pulling > some all nighters to get it done in time. > > > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Each time someone rails about spending cuts, I send them a link to the > > budget page, and ask them exactly what they want to cut. I have yet to > get > > a response that recommends any specific cuts - just a lot of sound and > fury > > about whatever the latest media buzzword is. > > > > The average voter is massively ignorant of the reality of government > > spending. I've even had someone suggest that the National Park Service > and > > NPR receive more money than the Defense Department. Also, there is a > > constant meme on Facebook that suggests that all defense employees could > be > > pay by cutting the salaries of the President and Congress. They > obviously > > have no sense of the magnitude of cost of a standing army. > > > > I'm all for less spending, but for someone to wave the arms and yell "cut > > spending" or "kill Obamacare" without any plan or clue was to what that > > involves is just spin and nonsense. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> > >> Actually, the problems is, although they keep talking about reigning in > the > >> spending, I don't see a lot of reigning going on. > >> > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368040 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
