{"id":52781,"date":"2014-07-01T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52781"},"modified":"2014-07-01T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:57:29","slug":"army-force-shaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52781","title":{"rendered":"Army force shaping"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Military.com<\/a>, notices have gone out to 2500 officers and NCOs that their services are no longer required by the government. <\/p>\n

The non-commissioned officer-turned-officer knew the service was downsizing after more than a decade of war. But he figured he’d be one of the lucky ones, in part because of his tours in Bosnia, Kosovo and, most recently, Afghanistan. What’s more, he had just received orders to move to a new duty station.<\/p>\n

So he and his wife, who’s newly pregnant with their first child, signed a lease and put a deposit on a home at the family’s next location. A few days later, he was called into his post’s commanding general’s office and informed that, effective almost immediately, he would no longer be in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It really is disheartening to see the Army engaging in force shaping in the manner that it is,” one said. “I’ve seen many of my fellow company-grade officers decide to get out because of the uncertainty over pay and future promotions. We’re losing those who can get jobs, which means the Army is losing the talent it should be retaining.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, at least when the Clinton Administration drew down, they asked for volunteers first and bought us off. I guess that won’t happen this time around. But then, the people who should be leaving are most likely the ones who are making the decisions about who will leave.<\/p>\n

If I was making the choices, I’d send letters to every senior NCO who hasn’t been in a first sergeant or command sergeant major slot – especially those who declined assignments to those positions. Then I’d cull the officer ranks using the same measure (although that might be a little more difficult to apply). But infantry officers like our buddy Robert Bateman who had last served in an authentic infantry slot as a platoon leader would be out on the street.<\/p>\n

Having been through these before, we all know that it will be the guys who worked their jobs among the troops, the folks who deployed every time they were ordered to deploy, no matter where, no matter how “no notice”
\nwho will pay the price for this draw down. It won’t be the people who avoided deployments through more than a decade of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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