{"id":28405,"date":"2012-01-21T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28405"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T14:05:48","slug":"army-to-cut-training-for-trigger-pullers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28405","title":{"rendered":"Army to cut training for trigger-pullers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Columbus, GA, Ledger-Enquirer<\/a> reports that Fort Benning plans to cut training for 35,000 combat arms trigger-pullers in 2012. <\/p>\n

The post will train 96,000 soldiers this fiscal year — which began Oct. 1, 2011, and ends Sept. 30 — compared to 131,000 for fiscal year 2011.<\/p>\n

That revised number is dramatically lower than previous projections, said Gary A. Jones, director of public affairs for the Maneuver Center of Excellence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe previously projected our fiscal year 2011 number of personnel to be trained at about 145,000,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, the Army\u2019s announced personnel draw down and the departure of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011 have affected training requirements across the Army.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know it’s one thing when you talk about cutting bloated weapons programs, it’s quite another when you’re saving money by cutting the training of the people who are at the bayonet point of our foreign policy and national security. Fort Benning trains the infantrymen and the cavalry and tankers at every level of their careers. That 35,000 number means that there will be fewer small unit combat arms leaders. <\/p>\n

Given how the media has recently been given a voice in the way the troops are trained, you can be sure that there won’t be cuts to their training in the laws of land warfare or sensitivity training in regards to sexual deviancy. So what training do you suppose they’ll cut? Probably the training that will be paid for in blood in the next conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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