{"id":37185,"date":"2013-08-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37185"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:12:05","slug":"pentagon-to-cut-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37185","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to cut stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the Defense Department says it’s serious about cutting the number of flag officers in their ranks.<\/p>\n

The Navy announced late Tuesday that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus had approved a plan to \u201creduce, eliminate or consolidate a net of 35 Navy flag officer positions\u201d at the one-, two- and three-star ranks. The Navy said it also plans to eliminate 6 more top officer positions in the 2015 budget.<\/p>\n

And last week, a memo from Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno and Army Secretary John McHugh declared that a plan to cut Army headquarters at the two-star level and above by 25 percent was priority No. 1 for headquarters staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The announcements follow an order from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last month to reduce spending on military headquarters by 20 percent over five years, with corresponding staff cuts. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, it’s a good start, but they can do better. I’ll bet they could save even more money by reducing enlisted ranks by every sergeant major and master sergeant who has never served in a leadership slot and doesn’t have a rotation to combat in the last twelve years. <\/p>\n

In fact, they can start offering command slots to those people and start booting them when they turn the slots down. If the military is all about leadership like they tell us incessantly, why would they want to retain enlisted people who don’t want to lead?<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know, I go off on a rant about this every time this subject comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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