{"id":28111,"date":"2011-12-28T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28111"},"modified":"2011-12-28T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:28:30","slug":"army-plans-cuts-to-nco-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28111","title":{"rendered":"Army plans cuts to NCO ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army-to-trim-nco-ranks-starting-in-april-memo-says-1.164636\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that a memo leaked out of somewhere which outlined plans to trim NCO ranks. But of course, not where the fat lies;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first board, affecting the ranks of sergeants first class and above, will consider senior NCOs \u201cfor denial of continued service whose performance, conduct, and\/or potential for advancement may not meet Army standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other two boards will target staff sergeants and above who are in a job \u201cwhere the 12-month operating strength projections exceed 100 percent\u201d and in jobs where the time it takes a soldier to get promoted exceeds the Army standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may have said this before, but I floated a plan in the 90s to cut NCO ranks by giving E-8s and E-9s an option to take a command or first sergeant slot or GTFO. I saw so many E-8 and E-9s spend their careers doing their damnedest to avoid leading troops it disgusted me, especially since we were in the business of being a leader and not a fat ass coffee drinking POG. <\/p>\n<p>I watched a sergeant major yell at his branch chief over the phone because they were trying to send him to an artillery battalion in the 101st from his cushy ROTC assignment. A CSM in the 101st has to be one of the best jobs in the Army for someone who wants to be a leader, unless it&#8217;s being a CSM in the 82d, but the guy was a leg.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, if the Army is going to trim the deadwood, that&#8217;d be fine, but start at the top of the enlisted ranks and boot those senior NCOs who&#8217;ve avoided leadership positions their entire careers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that a memo leaked out of somewhere which outlined plans to trim &hellip; <a title=\"Army plans cuts to NCO ranks\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28111\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army plans cuts to NCO ranks<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}