{"id":56062,"date":"2014-10-27T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56062"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:46:17","slug":"army-drawing-down-too-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56062","title":{"rendered":"Army drawing down too fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Army Times<\/a> which quotes Lieutenant General James McConville, the Army’s G-1 guy who thinks that maybe the Army is down-sizing a little too quickly;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very concerned that because of the strategic considerations, we may be driving very close to the curve as we move forward,\u201d said Lt. Gen. James McConville, the service\u2019s chief personnel officer (G-1), in an interview with Army Times.<\/p>\n

The budget picture remains unclear at the same time the service is ramping up global missions. This has led to uncertainties relating to the future size of the Army, and as a result, McConville cannot accurately project how many soldiers will be forced out of service by the retention boards that will meet in 2015.<\/p>\n

In terms of planning for the drawdown, McConville said, \u201cwe made some assumptions in 2012 regarding what the environment was going to be today,\u201d but that picture has changed with what we are seeing with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the Russian incursion in Ukraine and the Ebola outbreak in Africa.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Robert Burns, “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Especially when those men are short-sighted and have no plans related to the world’s realities. The Clinton Administration realized the same thing in the 1990s. At least when they drew down the force in 1993, folks left the service with a good taste in the mouths, and some even went back in when the Clinton Administration realized they had drawn down too fast and too much. Good luck trying to get this last bunch to come back in. <\/p>\n

Of course, in all of it’s wisdom, the Army is driving ahead;<\/p>\n

For now, the coming year is projected to look much like 2014. There will be a series of retention screenings, force-outs and reduced promotions as the Army drives toward an end strength of 490,000 soldiers by Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2015, according to the senior Pentagon officials who oversee personnel policies. Fiscal 2014 ended with 508,000 soldiers in the active component.<\/p>\n

The accession missions of 57,000 enlisted soldiers and 4,100 officers for this year are designed to support a much smaller Army, but the service will have to work aggressively to retain those soldiers as they move through their career timelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it’ll be the next President’s problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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