{"id":38072,"date":"2013-10-21T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38072"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:33:45","slug":"the-rush-from-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38072","title":{"rendered":"The rush from readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20131021\/NEWS\/310210007\/Army-accelerates-BCT-overhaul-by-2-years\">The Army Times<\/a> reports that the Army is accelerating their draw down by two years. It will result in the elimination of 10 more brigade combat teams (BCTs).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What was supposed to be a four-year process to cut the Army\u2019s end strength by as many as 80,000 soldiers, inactivate 10 BCTs and reorganize the remaining BCTs will now be compressed into two years, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of sequestration in [fiscal 2013], coupled with the threat of continued sequestration levels of funding, is forcing the Army to implement significant reductions to end-strength, readiness and modernization in order to generate short-term cost savings,\u201d Col. Daniel King, a spokesman for Forces Command, said in a statement. \u201cWe are accelerating the downsizing of the Army\u2019s active component end-strength to 490K by FY15 instead of FY17. Additionally, we will maintain a certain number and mix of units at a higher level of readiness to meet contingency requirements.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do they realize that there&#8217;s still a war going on? I guess the hippies finally got their wish. I hope our future enemies take this into consideration when they attack us.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a list of the BCTs to be eliminated at the Army Times link if you want to see if the unit you served with got the axe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports that the Army is accelerating their draw down by two years. It &hellip; <a title=\"The rush from readiness\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38072\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The rush from readiness<\/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":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072","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=38072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}