{"id":38082,"date":"2013-10-21T17:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38082"},"modified":"2013-10-21T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:47:22","slug":"odierno-has-just-two-combat-brigades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38082","title":{"rendered":"Odierno has just two combat brigades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, sends a link to Defense News<\/a> which reports that Army Chief of Staff, Ray Odierno told the press that he has only two combat ready brigades;<\/p>\n

Odierno said [he] hopes to get the number of trained and equipped brigades to seven by June 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is going to come a time when we simply don\u2019t have enough money to provide what I believe to be the right amount of ground forces to conduct contingency operations,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not there yet, but it is something we are going to continue to review.\u201d<\/p>\n

Army Secretary John McHugh said he and the chief are committed that \u201cwhatever the Army\u2019s end strength and its budgets may look like, we will never send a soldier into war unprepared, untrained or improperly equipped.\u201d But he acknowledged that there are unprecedented uncertainties with which the service must contend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, noodle-spine McHugh’s unprecedented uncertainties are the Congress and their inability to pass a budget. The House has passed budgets, but Harry Reid has other things on his mind besides what he’s paid to do. What those things are aren’t exactly clear.<\/p>\n

So the Army is doing some cost-cutting in order to squeeze some readiness into the Secretary’s priorities<\/a>;<\/p>\n

One step in this endeavor is an effort to cut 25 percent of overhead in headquarters. The Pentagon only required a 20-percent cut, but Odierno said the larger slice \u201ccan achieve some significant savings\u201d \u2014 thousands of soldiers that could instead help fill a Brigade Combat Team, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s one brigade I wouldn’t want to be any part of – I’ve taken in troops that came from Battalion headquarters who needed to learn how to tie their boots, I’d hate to see a whole brigade of former wienies.<\/p>\n

But, yeah, let’s cut out 10 more brigades while there are only two that are combat ready. And, oh, yeah, let’s have a press conference to tell the world how unprepared we are. Maybe our enemies aren’t reading the news today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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